This blog post gave me a great deal of self confidence.<p>While I have no doubts how good the author and his friends are, all of their ideas were quite intuitive and simple to understand.<p>The kind of "I could've come with the same idea" type. Realistically I would've not for many reasons but it is still stuff I can grasp and even gives me ideas while reading.<p>Which is different from the general hacker idea I have of someone in a basement exploiting extremely far fetched and hard to grasp for me memory corruptions in some cache dumping some random bytes like the very complex attacks like Spectre I've read about.<p>It also makes me think that if most of the applications I have worked on haven't been attacked and easily exploited is because honestly nobody bothered.