[balabaster]

You mean like State sponsored hacking? Sure... I don't know I would say that it's something else entirely.

The core mindset still comes from the same place. Understanding everything. Understanding the implications of bugs and features of known systems, using that for grand exploitation to achieve things they weren't designed for.

What inspired them to start hacking in the first place may or may not have come from a place of not having everything. Perhaps their trigger of interest were movies or TV shows: War Games, Hackers... or James Bond or the nerdy guy from NCIS, 24, Bourne Identity, MI5 or countless other TV shows and movies where hacking is glamorized.

The start of that career path is the same, regardless of what brought you there - a need to understand your tools, deeply.