Lots of knowledge on this video, amazing work! wish i had the time to pursue these kind of projects.

the mix of luck (lots of it) and timing

I used to work in an ad-tech company focused on mobile cpi offers that for several months paid the salaries of everyone involved by injecting malware in cracked apps on several third party app stores (they were making a profit out of it enough to dedicate a team only for this).

They even managed to automate all the process of "selling" cracked apps on third party stores. It is amazing how easy it is to trick broke 13yr old kids into installing stuff on their phones.

I left shortly after i found out about this.

This is one of the reasons we may need to look into self-regulation. Name them?

Never mind self-regulation, what he described is outright illegal. In most countries, so is not reporting them to the police once you know about it.

Absolutely, however with self regulation and a standards body they will find it much harder to get Engineers in the first place.