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Explain Like I'm Five
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Ok, thing of it like this. You locked yourself out of your house. You need someone to unlock your front door to access your keys on the other side. Someone with special skills could come over and pick your lock, at your request, and that's good. It's a service being provided to you. Or maybe he doesn't even charge. Maybe he just wants to do this for fun.
Then there are other lock pickers in the world. Ones who would pick the lock of an empty house to steal their stuff. That's bad. That's not the same guy who came over and helped you.
However, both are using the same skills. One for good, one for evil.
I took an "Ethical Hacking" class in college. They understood the value.
This is a great analogy.