> can't find better uses for their talents.

Why would they. People who break DRMs for fun and profit look with disdain at their whitehat counterparts.

Same with ad fraud. People in that particular business take pride at being able to fool boatload of best and brightest computer scientists who work at bot detection

As for people in good old browser exploit scene, I think they have good time laughing at vain efforts, and ineptness of their counterparts too

I think people are wrong thinking of it as a money thing