0 someone in a particular situation who is acting for morally good reasons, or something that shows who this person is: --
This has led to referees being referred to as white hats.
Here we were supposed to be the guys in the white hats.
White hats are becoming a necessary part of the information security field.
We had a speech on personal relations, social relations, community relations and international relations; and also on white hats, black hats and blue hats.
Whereas white hat hackers generally advise companies of security exploits quietly, grey hat hackers generally advise the hacker community as well as the vendors and then watch the fallout.
Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but do nt steal they broke into some of the worlds most powerful and secretive organisations.
Typically, a project will begin with an extended white hat action, as everyone gets on the same page creating a shared vision of the issue being addressed.
In the infancy of the hacker subculture and the computer underground, criminal convictions were rare because there was an informal code of ethics that was followed by white hat hackers.
