My hot take is to make many forms of hacking legal so long as the hacker reports their findings to the government. Let's have a free for all where every white hat and grey hat hacker gets to test the security of all companies, no permission from the companies required. Otherwise, it's only black hats that get to do the hacking, and they won't tell anyone when the find a vulnerability.
Everyone wins except for the companies who will be embarrassed they can't build a secure system to save their life. And they won't be able to legally bully someone for pressing F12 anymore.
This is important, it's a national security issue. Extreme measures like this are justified.
Some hacks, such as DDoS attacks might have to remain illegal. But otherwise, unless your proven to be stealing and selling data, let there be strong legal protections for those who responsibly report vulnerabilities.
And this is practical too. With vulnerability bounties you can solve the problem just by throwing money at it. But bounties can't be an opt-in thing, the companies who need them most are not opting-in.