Ethical Lines of the Gray Hat

Facter writes "There is a great article on CNET about the ethical debate between white/gray/black-hat hackers - interesting to note is that it reports the "fading away" of the "gray" definition between white and black, due to the DMCA hindering anything in between.."

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Just wait until paladium

[Billly Gates]

Just blacks and grays as far as the eye can see, petitioning in front of the Santa Clara court house where Linus is being jailed, while their linux jobs are being replaced with MCSE's due to redhat falling under and shacking confidence in this "has been former" os rather then for any technical reasons. All thanks to one critical bussiness decision. Use palladium or else....

Amazing what power this new technology has in combination with the dmca. Linux may seriously become the next os/2 or minux. Sadly I am serious too. Linux will be a small nitch of hobbiest for macs and nothing else. I said something here 2 years ago. Never and I mean never underestimate Microsoft! Everyone who has, has been stomped on or crushed. Their bussiness model couldn't compete with oss so they are now using a legal model to squash us. Its perfect agaisnt individuals who do not have the finiancial power to defend themselves in court.

Where is Jon Katz? @# +1 ; Intuitive #@

[Anonymous Coward]

JonKatz's articles for Slashdot appear more
infrequent. Perhaps, they will improve.

Re:What's this shit about white or black?

[josh crawley]

Who's the fuckwad moderator who put a -2 on this? This was heavy sarcasm.

My point was this: Who gives a fuck about "hat color"? Hell, might as well have a UV, violet, blue, green,yellow,orange, red, rf, and an AM hat. Yep. Hat color's that stupid.Or even better, let's list hat color according to the dangers of a hacking job we're in. Of course, we'll do this in #aabbcc hex triplets.

Feh. This story sucks.