Victoria Roddel's article on "Reasons for Hacking the Home Computer"

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Latest post Mon, Jan 5 2009 2:43 PM by jeff (1,494 pts ). 0 replies.
  • Victoria Roddel's article on "Reasons for Hacking the Home Computer"

    I enjoyed reading Victoria's article "Reasons for Hacking the Home Computer," but I found one error regarding "white hat" hackers. Contrary to what her article states, "white hat" hackers are not at all "illegal hackers;" thus the term "white hat" - i.e. "good guys."

    "White hat" hackers are properly defined in the below Wikipedia article regarding 'ethical hacking.' They are, in fact, "ethical" hackers - i.e. security experts paid by the targeted company, to break the defenses of the targeted company, and to report the discovered vulnerabilities back to the management of the targeted company."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Hacking

    Other than that, I found Victoria's article very engaging and informative.

    Jeff Mason, MCP, MCSE, BBA CIS

    Published by jeff (1,494 pts ) on Jan 5 2009, 02:43 PM to
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