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Hm, yes and no. Ethical hacking is bounded by "scope". Organizations specify exactly what is allowed and what isn't. Also, the general guideline is that you mus
by yakkomajuri 6y ago
Hm, yes and no. Ethical hacking is bounded by "scope". Organizations specify exactly what is allowed and what isn't. Also, the general guideline is that you must stop once you reach data.
An ethical hacker will find out your door is open and warn you without going inside. If they go in and steal, they're not a white hat hacker.
And if you have an open door with something interesting inside, a black hat hacker will eventually find it anyway.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoAn ethical cracker might take a CD box with one of those radio tags and wave it at the bleepy scanner thing to check if the scanner's working, but they wouldn't walk out the door with a fridge under their coat.
- lr4444lr 6y agoWhat a white hat hacker does in many (not all, maybe not even a majority) of instances is the equivalent of trying new lock picks in the door, watching them swing open, and then reporting dutifully on it. "Not going inside" and "not stealing" aren't sufficient defenses in the eyes of the law for this behavior any more than attempted burglary.