Black-hat
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− | A malicious hacker. Refers to color-coded hats in old western movies: bad guys wear black and good guys wear white. | + | A malicious hacker. Refers to color-coded hats in old western movies: bad guys wear black and good guys wear white. Contrast and compare [[white-hat]], [[script kiddie]]. These are not FreeBSD-specific terms, but they're included here because the terms are relevant to any security discussion. |
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Revision as of 10:09, 11 September 2004
A malicious hacker. Refers to color-coded hats in old western movies: bad guys wear black and good guys wear white. Contrast and compare white-hat, script kiddie. These are not FreeBSD-specific terms, but they're included here because the terms are relevant to any security discussion.