[marcus0x62]

> A few years ago I worked on analyzing a website's security posture as part of an E-banking security project.

Cool, so a pen test?

> One of the best ways to discourage hacking on the Internet is to ... pay them tens of thousands of dollars to do "penetration tests" against your systems, right? Wrong! "Hacking is Cool" is a really dumb idea.

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Most of these are well thought out and still relevant 17 years later. #4 -- particularly the "don't learn offensive security skills as a defender" idea -- was dumb in 2005, and its dumb now. Its also, unsurprisingly, not advice the author has himself followed.