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Microsoft Consults Ethical Hackers at Blue Hat
linumax writes "For the second year in a row, Microsoft Corp. invited a small number of hackers onto its Redmond, Wash., campus to crack the company's products for all to see.Blue Hat V2 was held on Thursday and Friday and teamed noted "white hat" hackers with Microsoft employees to break into and expose security weaknesses in the company's products. Over 1,000 Microsoft developers, managers and security experts attended, including Microsoft brass Jim Allchin and Kevin Johnson, co-presidents of the company's Platforms, Products & Services Division."
Every day is Blue Hack day.
this segregation cannot continue!!!!!
This is a good thing. Finally someone with ethics on the Micro$oft campus.
If they are ethical, why are they working with Microsoft?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Black Hat = Cool Hackers, mostly under age 18, can not be prosecuted as an adult.
Grey Hat = Hackers transitioning from Black to White.
White Hat = A hacker over the age of 18, who rattles door knobs and probes security, but has stopped defacing websites.
Blue Hat = WTF? Blue hats? Are these smurfs?
Red Hats = Hackers with an RHCE, very, very dangerous.
I'm sure "(white|blue)-hat hacker" in this case is redefined to mean "anyone who cooperates with Microsoft when finding security vulnerabilities".
Yes, the rest of the world would call them Testers.
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Microsoft is ok with "white hat" hackers, but when asked about the "Red Hat" crackers, Microsoft confirmed that these malicious coders only hurt Windows.
Heh, yeah, thats the point of Linux.
Black Hat = Cool Hackers, mostly under age 18, can not be prosecuted as an adult.
Grey Hat = Hackers transitioning from Black to White.
White Hat = A hacker over the age of 18, who rattles door knobs and probes security, but has stopped defacing websites.
Blue Hat = WTF? Blue hats? Are these smurfs?
Red Hats = Hackers with an RHCE, very, very dangerous.
You forgot brown hats = hackers with their heads up their asses.....
Lavender Hat = A hacker afraid to come out of the closet.
Rainbow Hat = He's a hacker and he's proud! 2 Snaps and an @ symbol!
Yellow Hat = A White Hat hacker who's just been pissed on.
Green Hat = A novice who is just learning how to hack. (also known as a n00b, FNG, Script-Kiddie).
In related news, Playboy Inc. invited a small group of whackers to their office to check out next year's calendar girls.
Afterwards everyone had lunch with Natalie Portman.
RHCE flings pen-filled pocket protector at the lcd panel of the Windows Server 2003 box' monitor
yup, dangerous :)
"In the end, there is simply no weapon more devastating than the truth, delivered in just the right way." - tnk1
How many seconds into the conference did it take for them to get royally pwned?
In related news, 1000 marine snipers were asked to John Smith's community farm and challenged them to hit the broad side of his barn.
I don't get it.
"For the second year in a row, Microsoft Corp. invited a small number of hackers onto its Redmond, Wash., campus to crack the company's products for all to see."
Admiral Ackbar sez...
IT'S A TRAP!
Education is the silver bullet.
Anyone care to explain to me how you get spyware on a computer without browsing to 'not-so-decent-sites' or installing junk software from the Internet?
install windows