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What on earth is a black hat? 
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A Black Hat is a "bad" hacker. A White Hack is a "good" hacker. a Grey Hat is somewhere in between."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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i think it comes from wizards, or some such thing(black=evil, Gandalf the grey etc)?
But basicaly bad hacker,good(ethical) hacker,neutral(good and bad) hacker.'The very basis of the liberal idea – the belief of individual freedom is what causes the chaos' - William Kristol, son of the founder of neo-conservitivism, talking about neo-con ideology and its agenda for you.info here. prove me wrong.
Bush's Republican=Neo-con for all intent and purpose. be afraid.Comment
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So a "good" hacker is someone who actively looks for (and finds) loopholes in software to iron them out (and not exploit them)... Whereas the black hats are "real" hackers...
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Actually, it probably comes from westerns. Good cowboys wear white hats; bad cowboys, black hats.Originally posted by child of Thor
i think it comes from wizards, or some such thing(black=evil, Gandalf the grey etc)?
But basicaly bad hacker,good(ethical) hacker,neutral(good and bad) hacker.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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A "good" hacker is one that doesn't damage anything he works with.So a "good" hacker is someone who actively looks for (and finds) loopholes in software to iron them out (and not exploit them)... Whereas the black hats are "real" hackers...
A "bad" hacker would better be called a vandal, the ones that launch DOSes, write viruses, etc.meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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A simple example of a white-hat hacker is a security analyst for one of those security companies that notifies the vendor of the security hole they found, and allow them time to patch it before making it public.
A black-hat hacker is one that finds the same security hole and uses it to exploit computers, steal data, write viruses, etc.
A grey-hat hacker is one that finds the same security hole, makes it public before a patch is available, and usually also makes available an exploit for it."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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IIRC the term hacker originally referred to largely the good kind, but over time has become to be synonymous with the bad kind.Originally posted by Carolus Rex
So a "good" hacker is someone who actively looks for (and finds) loopholes in software to iron them out (and not exploit them)... Whereas the black hats are "real" hackers...
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