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White hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A white hat is the hero or good guy , especially in computing slang, where it refers to an ethical hacker or penetration tester who focuses on securing and protecting IT systems. White hat hacke...
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While white hat hacking is a hobby for some, others provide their services for a fee. Thus, a white hat hacker may work as a consultant or be a permanent employee on a company's payroll. A good many white hat hackers are former black hat hackers.
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"Mell says the attack scripts are posted on hacker Web sites by other hackers, by disgruntled systems administrators trying to draw attention, and eventually patches, to holes in their systems, and by 'white hat' hackers seeking to alert the computer security industry to vulnerabilities.";
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Read a description of Penetration Testing. ... Thus, a white hat hacker may work as a consultant or be a permanent employee on a company's payroll. A good many white hat hackers are former black hat hackers.The term comes from old Western movies, where heros often wore white hats and the "bad guys" wore black hats.
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The other three Linus, RMS and TBL are hackers in the general meaning of the word (outstanding programmers). Since the hat categories only describe security hackers the article was 100% inaccurate. Examples of white hat hackers are, Fyodor of nmap;
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Only engadget would have you believe that it's been a problem since "Diebold and friends" (read: Republicans) have been involved. Correct me if I'm wrong... didn't the US voter recently elect a Democratic (read: "white hats") MAJORITY in Congress and the Senate using Diebold voting machines?
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