Hacker Hats
I’ve been a hacker my whole life. I’ve gotten paid to break into places (which
I had the legal authority to do). I’ve cracked passwords, broken into networks,
and written malware. Never once did I break the law or cross an ethical bound-
ary. This is not to say that I haven’t had people try to tempt me to do so. Over
the years, I’ve had friends who asked me to break into their suspected cheat-
ing spouse’s cellphone, bosses who asked me to retrieve their boss’s email, or
people who asked to break into an evil hacker’s server (without a warrant) to
try to stop them from committing further hacking. Early on you have to decide
who you are and what your ethics are. I decided that I would be a good hacker
(a “whitehat” hacker), and whitehat hackers don’t do illegal or unethical things.
Hackers who readily participate in illegal and unethical activities are called
“blackhats.” Hackers who make a living as a whitehat but secretly dabble in
blackhat activities are known as “grayhats.” My moral code is binary on this
issue. Grayhats are blackhats. You either do illegal stuff or you don’t. Rob a
bank and I’ll call you a bank robber no matter what you do with the money.
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