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Noun
en-noun|sg=white hat hacker

1. A hacker who is ethically opposed to the abuse of computer systems.
2. A hacker who is legally authorized to use otherwise illegal means to achieve objectives critical to the security of computer systems, for example, someone hired to execute a penetration test upon a network to produce a report for its administrator about vulnerabilities and solutions to the networks security.

• 2008-01-01 08:47 - Connel MacKenzie - [[User:Connel MacKenzie/Format|mfmt]], {{infl}} (en)

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