The white hats are the good type of hackers. The black hats are the bad crackers. Think of an old black and white western if you need a mnemonic device. The bad guys always wore black. The good guys always wore white (that stayed amazing clean in the dirt!).
On a side note - we pretty much have to accept the general media distorting the term hacker has modified the definition to the point that it has a new meaning that may not be a good one. We don't have to *like* it though. It just means that it will have another definition entry in the dictionary and you have to take the word in context to determine the correct meaning. It is how language evolves.
On another side note - If a person calls themselves a hacker - they aren't a hacker. It is like a person calling themselves sexy or the best thing out there. It is a term that has to be given to you by another. I just put in this side note as I have had two people call themselves that in the past week in conversation with me. Hubris. Yuck.
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) wrote:
"ethically motivated hackers who work entirely within the law; the whitehats of the whitehats" about
I'm confused. Do it use the term "hacker" properly or as most people use it? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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