Hard to believe that. If you can grok the logs you probably know how and why the hack works. Plus they're not too informative, for example, few of them show the version of an application under attack, and a good chunk of the time you will see a line like:
~ $./domagic
~ #
Where `domagic` is published script.
There are good texts to read for security, and imo, lamer logs are not exactly at the top of that list. Read the public disclosures, advisories, PoC code; not the private gloating of hackers :-)
Let's not split hairs here. Of course you learn something from them, but be honest, aren't you smiling the whole time you read them? They're hacker tabloids; our version of seeing an actor in their fat, pale naked beach body.
I can't believe anybody would take a marker to a lamer log and "dive into it" looking for Knowledge(TM).
i don't take a marker to anything i find on HN, yet i still participate in the community and read the submissions in an effort to look for Knowledge(TM).
There are good texts to read for security, and imo, lamer logs are not exactly at the top of that list. Read the public disclosures, advisories, PoC code; not the private gloating of hackers :-)