RE: Become an Ethical Hacker
My apologies for not respecting your writing. I just have very strong opinions on this topic.
I also have a background of doing bug bounties and CTF's. I've hacked lots of stuff and I've not always had good reactions to my hacking. I once found a xss bug in a famous ecommerce site in my country and I was nice enough to report it to them, there reaction was: that I was issued a warning and next I would be issued a lawyer's letter if I were to share the information with other people regarding this incident.
There is no ethics, the really good guys from a technical perspective are the really bad guys or atleast the guys who have really hacked stuff they weren't supposed to but did coz they were curious. Most of us are really grey hats. The blackhats among hackers are those who are just in it for the money, but some of them are also very good at what they do and if they were given to make the same amount money legally, then they probably will, but bug bounty programs such as hackerone or bugcrowd don't pay great, unless perhaps you are living in a third world country.
If you want to read some hacking stuff that I wrote:
https://steemit.com/hacking/@throwawayaccount/the-psychology-of-thievery
https://steemit.com/hacking/@throwawayaccount/social-engineering-intro-to-social-engineering-for-complete-newbie
People are always afraid of think they don't understand and hacking is something that seems dark and complicated. People don't like that and are afraid of it. And they are right when you can see all the think that can be done nowadays..
You have really done a nice job with the bug you have found, their IT teem was just jealous of your skills ;) They just wanted to protect their-self but they could have been more thankful
Yes for me, it's hard to be always the good withe hat, exactly the same for the life, everything change with your actual state of mind and your need of curiosity or money..
Gonna read it thx man!