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"ethical hacker" is such a trash term.
by dpeck 6y ago
"ethical hacker" is such a trash term.
- tim44 6y agoagree. and the term "hacker" has been driven through the ground and back up so many times its lost and changed meanings. Now "i got hacked" is akin to the dog ate my homework or I gave someone my password.
- tptacek 6y agoYes. You should generally think less of companies that use it.
- hnick 6y agoIt's funny since this term is rising in popularity in recent years, at exactly the same time that "hack" seems to be coming more popular in everyday use and losing some of its stigma. "IKEA hacks", "life hacks", etc.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoFor what it’s worth, nobody who actually works in security uses it, and they mostly cringe when others do. That and “cyber” are pretty good smell tests that you’re interacting with someone who is very out of touch.
- dpeck 6y agoyeah, old (by todays standards anyway) infosec hacker here. "cyber" has always a fed/consultant tip off
- shacrw 6y agocurious to know, what's the term which people in the infosec community use then? pen-tester? cybersecurity researcher?
- wglb 6y agoPenetration tester or application security audit. Not cyber.
- acoye 6y agoWell in the philosophy problem space, ethics and morals are clearly a complex matter haha. If someone’s ethics is to maximise chaos, then a full disclosure on 4chan is _technically_ the _most_ ethical action for this person.