On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 22:20 -0400, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: > > > what is a white hat hacker - sounds like another distortion. I think > > you > > > mean white hat cracker. > > > > I really don't quote wikipedia as a reliable source but this is what > > it have to say about it. > > don't quote wikipedia in this context. There are hackers and there are > crackers. Hackers are good guys (meaning they wear white hats) and > crackers are bad guys (black hats). If you talk about white hat hackers > that implies that most hackers are black hat guys. This is wrong. In > fact you are echoing ankit fadia. Well there are two types of people right? Black hat hackers/crackers is often interchangeably used. And just because somebody talks about white hat, how does it make most hackers black hat? I just don't get it! -- Arvind S Raj -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
