[ILUG] Coloured hats.

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Colm Buckley wrote:

> Black hat = malicious hacker.  Someone who breaks into a system to cause
> damage or for personal gain.

hackers dont break into systems. crackers do.
 
> White hat = benevolent hacker.  Someone who breaks into a system to
> demonstrate its vulnerabilities, and help fixing them.

ditto.

hackers hack on lots of stuff, not just security related things.

>        Colm

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