That’s what you think is good about hacking? That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. That’s what you get when you get your education from TV.

Hacking means “misusing/modifying crap to work how you want”.

Ethical hacking is e.g. modifying devices you own to run software you want, like e.g. running homebrew software on a game console. It is finding and reporting security vulnerabilities so that companies can improve their security. It is modifying software or devices to e.g. removing privacy problems or tracking.

And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren’t the same either, since some ethical hacking activities might be illegal (e.g. violating restrictions on modifying devices) and some legal hacking activities might not be ethical (e.g. using legal hacking to dox people).