> Everyone who begins learning exploitation hits a phase of exploitability grief about 3 month into dedicated, practiced study. They hack something they didn’t think they had the skill to break into and it terrifies them. They’re smart enough to know that, relatively speaking, they are an idiot, and if an idiot can do this then nothing is safe. That feeling is correct.
20 years later… I don’t get joy from hacking things. But the 20 year wisdom is a lot of the time it doesn’t matter if it is safe. Just know when it does matter and worry about that :)