Comment Re:its the hackers alright! (Score 1) 742
There's no difference from the business's standpoint between a black hat and a white hat. Let me spin it a different way (which the trolls will come along and acuse me of metaphor comparasion or some crap):
If a someone broke into your house and then left you a note saying "I got in because your security system is junk and I got around it by doing _blah_" would you just say "ok cool, well i need to get it fixed.", or would you continually be wondering what in the world they were doing in your house in the first place, and why they would tell you all that as well. Maybe they're lying. Maybe they planted more stuff while they were there. Who knows. Inevitably the entire house is at loss.
White hat hackers do no good. With black hat hackers at least you can be like "well this sucks my data it gone and they emailed hatemail to my boss" but with white hat you have no idea what they saw or modified. The entire system is compromised. Might as well just unplug it already.
There's no differentiation. You break into someone's computer you violate the entire integrity of that system and the sensativity of it's data. Period.
If a someone broke into your house and then left you a note saying "I got in because your security system is junk and I got around it by doing _blah_" would you just say "ok cool, well i need to get it fixed.", or would you continually be wondering what in the world they were doing in your house in the first place, and why they would tell you all that as well. Maybe they're lying. Maybe they planted more stuff while they were there. Who knows. Inevitably the entire house is at loss.
White hat hackers do no good. With black hat hackers at least you can be like "well this sucks my data it gone and they emailed hatemail to my boss" but with white hat you have no idea what they saw or modified. The entire system is compromised. Might as well just unplug it already.
There's no differentiation. You break into someone's computer you violate the entire integrity of that system and the sensativity of it's data. Period.
