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

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 (1,467 pts ) on Jan 5 2009, 02:43 PM to Internet Security Discussions Tags: white hat hackers, penetration assessments, ethical hacking, sneakers