Getting involved in crypto

Hey all, I used to be a hacker and I heard this group is a good path to being a real whitehat. Unfortunately like so many others I was enslaved by psyops for a while, so it might take me some time to get to the point of talking about extracting secret keys from hardware, making viruses that clean up after bl*ckhats, saying "social engineering" without vomiting, bantering scads of trolls away, or saying or doing anything at all that is chosen freely rather than negotiated with compromise. What is mostly going on in this group? It seems to change sometimes?