, 2008-09-26
In the early 90's, I attended an academic conference in Hawaii. At one presentation, a colleague from the University of California at Berkeley whom I'll refer to as "the supervisor," told a story of young hackers, who he referred to as the Urchins.
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A good samaritan is someone who, while minding his own business, accidentally encounters something amiss and attempts to provide aid.
A "white hat" hacker is not a good samaritan because he would be under contract with the system owner to discover vulnerabilities, and would be doing so with advance permission.
If a knowledgeable customer were to accidentally find a problem in a webform, and were to b=ring this to the attention of the webmaster, he'd be a good samaritan, but if he were intentionally probing the site looking for weaknesses, he be neither a good samaritan nor a white hat hacker, he'd be committing a felony.
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