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mre_nachocheese 10 points ago +10 / -0

White Hats are people that use their hacking skills/talents for the betterment of society. Black Hats are people that use their hackings skills/talenst for evil. Asshats are currently what we have representing us in the congress and senate.

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MagaMattyIc3 1 point ago +1 / -0

Underrated comment! Here have an updoot!

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Zadok 3 points ago +3 / -0

Comes from the early western movies. The good guys (Lone Ranger for example), always wore white hats. Bad guys, robbers, wore black.

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Togabito 3 points ago +3 / -0

Like in westerns black hats are bad actors white hats are good guys

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dykstra89 2 points ago +2 / -0

there's always internal wars going on within our military and intelligence agencies. black hats are rogue criminal factions hell bent on destroying the world. white is the opposite

all retarded larps aside, this is quite obviously real

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BS2020 2 points ago +2 / -0

white hats were the good buys in early western movies, black hats were the bad guys -- thus, the white hackers are using their skills for good and the black hat hackers using them for corrupt reasons

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freeUSArevolutionnow 1 point ago +1 / -0

At least in the context of hacking, white hats are people who hack into the system and notify the owner(s) of the vulnerabilities. They’re not trying to steal anything by hacking. Black hats are the malicious actors who are trying to hack to steal stuff and cause chaos. In short, white hats are the good guys and black hats are the bad guys.

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PursuingHap 1 point ago +1 / -0

Its a computer term. Black hats are hackers with malicious intent. White hats are hackers who hack systems to expose system vulnerabilities to be able to reinforce systems against malicious attacks

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_Donald-Trump_ 1 point ago +1 / -0

Government Employees/spies/intelligence community memebers who are either fighting for good (white hat) or evil (Black hat).