white hat
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- noun
- /ˈwaɪt hæt/
- Jargon
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hacker ético
- So they don't even understand the concept of white hat at all.
- white hat hacker
And so we start to see how this applies to sort of white hat hacking, I guess.
- And so we start to see how this applies to sort of white hat hacking, I guess.
Examples
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There are people who pay for honest white hat SEO and also get buried by black hats.
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Experienced club members wearing white hats are there to keep an eye on how you are doing and help you enjoy the day.
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In my case, I am actually very white hat.
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And we have white hat hackers who do it for a living.
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For a long time, marketers have been having this never-ending war involving white hat vs. black hat.
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Many organizations hire white hat hackers to strengthen their cybersecurity measures.
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The team of white hats worked tirelessly to secure the company's sensitive data.
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As a white hat hacker, she focuses on finding vulnerabilities to help companies protect their systems.
How Ethical
- Jargon
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- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning ('ethical SEO practices') is largely built from 'white' (good/ethical) plus 'hat' (a label for a role or approach), so a learner who knows those constituents can infer a general sense of morally acceptable methods. However the color-as-moral-marker + 'hat' metaphor is somewhat domain-specific and metaphorical (especially in computing/SEO), so the precise technical sense may not be fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
White hat comes from old Western films where the hero wore a white hat and the bad guy wore a dark one. That clear picture made people call someone honest a 'white hat', so in computing a 'white hat' is a hacker who helps protect systems.