On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 09:24 +0530, Arvind S Raj wrote: > > 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!
hackers are good guys. They wear white hats. No need to mention the colour of the hat - by definition it is white. That is my view. your view: hackers may be good or bad, the 'good' hackers wear white hats and the bad ones wear black hats. my view: crackers are bad guys. They wear black hats. Some hackers, for good intentions crack sites - they are white hat crackers. got it? -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
