I used to take exception to these types of articles. My thought was "Are you nuts? Why would you teach the world how to hack?"

After seeing what many people do with their systems, I'm actually glad to see these types of articles now because I no longer have to prove their systems are hackable. They can prove it themselves and take the proper corrective action.

The only problem now is that the same nearly careless attitude that caused their sloppy security to begin with will likely keep them from reading such articles. 🙂