The Hacker

=Hacker= From Wikipedia,

Hacker may refer to:

Technology
Hacker (term),  term used in computing for several types of person

Hacker (computer security) someone who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system

Hacker (hobbyist), who makes innovative customizations or combinations of retail electronic and computer equipment

Hacker (programmer subculture), who combines excellence, playfulness, cleverness and exploration in performed activities

Black Hat
We define a Black Hat Hacker as someone who violates the information system, usually for personal advantage (economical, political, espionage etc.). They are "Black" hackers because they deliberately commit a criminal action by violating information systems, stealing information and in some case reselling information to third parties.

"If an individual uncovers a vulnerability and illegally exploits it and/or tells others how to carry out this activity, he is considered a black hat" (Harris 2011, 47)

Gray Hat
They are considering them selves "Ethical Hackers" and they don't want to be associated with White or Black Hats. In theory they are the middle ground between the respect for boundaries of the white hats and the malicious infiltration of the black hats. Like the black hats they discover vulnerability of of the system and they make them public, however the gray hats work with the vendor or the owner of the system and often they implement the system to make it more secure. "If a different person uncovers a vulnerability,does not illegally exploit it or tell others how to do so, and works with the vendor to fix it, this person is considered a gray hat" (Harris 2011, 47)

White Hat
White Hat are also called "Hunters".

Although they have the skill and the knowledge to be a Black Hat, they collaborate with the authorities in the war against Cyber-Crime. They usually held up a job as advisers for governments and companies and they violate system with the purpose to find the gap in security and make the system safe. They never use their skills for criminal or personal gain.

"If an individual uncovers a vulnerability and exploits it with authorization, she is considered a white hat" (Harris 2011, 47). PS she is in the textbook :-)

Do you think that all Hackers should be prosecuted despite the fact that some of them don’t do any economic/physical damage to the property they hacked into? Yes No

The Hacker’s Community
"There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker" (Raymond, 2004)

The Jargon File

http://catb.org/jargon/html/

http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

The Hacker Manifesto

http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html

Anonymous

http://anonnews.org/

https://whyweprotest.net/community/