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White Hat Hacker Flowchart

For your consideration. Rather obviously not to be taken as legal advice. Seems to be roughly what’s evolved over the last decade.

lkafleFebruary 21, 2012 at 5:47 am
Reblogged this on lava kafle kathmandu nepal and commented:
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Mitja KolsekFebruary 21, 2012 at 9:46 am
Not to be overlooked: even a white hat hacker is just one dickness away from getting prosecuted. Nice chart, Dan.
Dan KaminskyFebruary 21, 2012 at 11:14 am
Not being a dick tends to get you out of a remarkable amount of trouble, though.

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