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Does this qualify as white-hat or grey-hat hacking? Does the doing only good outweigh the bad of modifying someone else's system?
by NamTaf 12y ago
Does this qualify as white-hat or grey-hat hacking? Does the doing only good outweigh the bad of modifying someone else's system?
- Mandatum 12y agoRelevant helpful viruses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia http://virus.wikidot.com/codered http://virus.wikidot.com/codered (CodeGreen)
- danielweber 12y agoIt's a long-running debate in the security community, almost as big as full-vs-responsible disclosure. On the pro side, it's better than you get patched than stay vulnerable and fall into someone else's zombie list. On the anti side, you don't know what you are messing with and could break things, oh, and it's illegal and you can go to jail. On the anti-anti side, if you can't be held responsible to patch your machines, don't complain when someone else does it for you. That's the barest summary.