My advice in to not do the crime if you can't do the time. Also, I had always thought you were a white hat hacker. From the way yiu word it all, it seems to me as if you really don't want to commit crimes.
Well, in any field of study the proper way to speak of certain tools, techniques and procedures is by their academic terms. If that makes me sound like a white hat, ok. In all actuality if and when i have committed a cyber crime it was purely for educational purposes, since i am an autodidact and do not have the means and facilities to participate in labs and big conferences and what have you. Now, i would like a job in infosec to be sure but in my case following the law has always been incidental rather than essential(As Lanny eloquently put a couple threads back). In that context, i would be considered grey hat. A lot of people don't seem to make the distinction between grey and black these days though. And while i purposefully maintain contacts in "the scene" finance has never been much of a direct motivator for me. However and i will divulge this much, i was hoping the guy who contacted me had done so for my efforts in developing malware. The blackhat malware game is highly sophisticated and the risk is modular, depending on your position within such an organisation.
As of yet, i haven't taken any efforts to contact the person/people that sought me out any further. Largely due to the fact that if they approached me for my work in malware they think it is advanced enough to be considered valuable, while i know for a fact that the malware i create is absolute shit tier compared to serious black hat enterprises out there. As such i have judged their skill to be sub-optimal for my further development in the field. But like HushPuppy alluded to you can't blame a guy for flexin' one does like to see some kind of acknowledgement of the work one does.
