It's been so long since there were prolific black hats, that you seem to have confused the definition of black hat and white hat with "offensive security" and "

It's been so long since there were prolific black hats, that you seem to have confused the definition of black hat and white hat with "offensive security" and "defensive security" ;) Everyone working in offensive security is still a white hat. That's a legitimate profession. Black hats hack things without permission. That used to be big at Defcon, but I don't think it was ever really a Black Hat thing.