nah man, the author is actually pretty correct in terms of what constitutes actual blackhat seo. Blackhats hack sites and cloak and clickjack. Link spammers are

nah man, the author is actually pretty correct in terms of what constitutes actual blackhat seo. Blackhats hack sites and cloak and clickjack. Link spammers are just a shade of grey. The problem is that link spammers like to sound tougher than they are so they say they do blackhat seo instead of what they're really doing, which is grey. Link spam won't send you to jail. Hacking a site can send you to jail. I've spammed millions of links in the last few years, and I am most definitely not a real blackhat.