For those of you who are unfamiliar with the terminology, there are two kinds of computer hackers.
White hat hackers are tourists, explorers, defenders of digital space. Yes they will use their knowledge of technology to gain access to places they shouldn’t be but they won’t take anything or damage anything and often will tell the organisations after the fact what vulnerabilities they exploited to gain access, so that the systems administrators can improve their security.
Black hat hackers are using similar skills and access to steal confidential data, sabotage the systems they infiltrate and exploit unknown vulnerabilities entire for personal gain.
You know, goodies and baddies.
And I decided a while ago that since magic is just theatre… Why aren’t there more magic baddies?
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