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More holes than even Stanley Yelnats could dig.

Parmesan does at well. At least the real stuff from Italy does.

Jesus, take the wheel!

You would have to put a lot of faith in it.

I'd fear it would drive into an elephant.

I assume the idea is, that the company then has a contract with the hacker, so they can no longer sue him. They essentially hack themselves via proxy.

Bounties are a bit nebulous.

Actual pen testing companies have red teams (attackers) that have a scope of what they are allowed to target, and how they go about it.

For example, just because a red teamer can get into the data center to do stuff locally doesn't meet the scope requirement of testing their web page externally. They would be prosecuted most likely.

Pen testing companies also have lawyers, at least they should, who help negotiate scope and what is legally allowed and in what context.

Due to the secrecy needed for some tests, the security staff may not be aware a test is in place. From what I understand, generally people have some sort of paperwork on their person, or at least the contact information of someone at the company with the authority to authorize this red team pen test.

That being said, cops may still get called, you may still get arrested, and have to deal with the courts.

Or worse, some trigger happy security guard shoots you.

I'm just studying that stuff though at the moment, so take what I said with a grain of salt.

Have you seen how fast car thieves can steal cars now? Through repeater attacks or special devices, they can be gone in 60 seconds.

Car alarms only deter the most casual of thieves.

Fair argument

There is one additional factor though which is that the majority of crimes happen on impulses and depend on perceived potential for reward. A tesla, if you know where to sell it is a clear reward. Cars also tend to be very standard. If you can steal one you know how to steal plenty.

For a house (tend to be more career criminals) you can never be sure there isn't someone home, a dog. Layouts are unknown, chance of leaving identifiable evidence goes up as you take time. Escape routes may be limited. There is definitely some additional risk Involved, creative skill required.

I am gonna go on a limb and say for criminals there as advantages and disadvantages to both types of thievery.

Goes without saying that appropriating/breaking items, invading living space from others for any other reason then life/death survival isn morally repulsive and wrong.