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Would need a ton of moderation. I'm talking manually approving threads and no links in replies.
Yes, it would attract attention of new users, but it will also most definitely attract the attention of anyone with malicious intent to spam their new 'hacking tool, hack ur ex, hack ur school, hack ur workplace, hack gfs iphone" etc. Tons of malicious stuff popping up.

Or, at the least terrible, users spamming links to articles on their blog, or stuff you can find on Google that really don't have much aspect of discussion to them and are only being posted here for the sake of 'sharing with the community' without putting any effort into it whatsoever.

I'd go as far as only allowing open-source discussion, i.e. no download links except for a GitHub repo (or something of that sort) and a virus scan with hashes to verify authenticity.
You'd also be attracting the leak community, which is most of the time illegal and more often than not malicious.

But under those circumstances, you may as well just have a new thread tag/prefix like [Hacking] which would either fall under hardware or software sections.

On the flip-side, I'd have a f*** field day practicing deobfuscation and malware analysis from all the threads that don't get approved lmfao.

Just my two-cents though.