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<blockquote data-quote="Cowpipe" data-source="post: 239882" data-attributes="member: 23820"><p>A blackhat is somebody who hacks for malicious purposes <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Eg: The person who sets up a botnet to send out spam is a 'blackhat'. Then you have 'whitehats' which is somebody who hacks for 'good', eg: the researcher who hacks into the botnet server to shut it down would be a whitehat <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowpipe, post: 239882, member: 23820"] A blackhat is somebody who hacks for malicious purposes ;) Eg: The person who sets up a botnet to send out spam is a 'blackhat'. Then you have 'whitehats' which is somebody who hacks for 'good', eg: the researcher who hacks into the botnet server to shut it down would be a whitehat ;) [/QUOTE]
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