Sorry Joe but I'm gonna have to agree on a little less strictness too with a very valid reason:

You never hire cops to show you how to break into a house to make a better lock, you hire a dirty rotten son of a bitch to do it right.

Thanks Captain Zap!

Anyway, I personally don't think there is an issue talking, discussing, or talking about, how to break into something, to better understand it. That curiosity is how most of us started, and most of the big companies today were founded by kids in a garage with this mentality. Even Apple (Steve Wozniak has my vote for greatest Hacker ever as he can design both hardware and software, and make it actually work, even down to the paper and pencil level) but either way, as long as there is a reason other than "I are teh Haxxor, I are rooting Hotmail" I don't think it's much of an issue.