Hacker be mitigated. White hats are usually employed by the target system's owner and are typically paid (sometimes quite well) for their work. Their work is not illegal because it is done with the system owner's consent. Black hats or crackers are hackers with malicious intentions. They often steal, exploit, and sell data, and are usually motivated by personal gain. Their work is usually illegal. A cracker is like a black hat hacker, but is specifically someone who is very skilled and tries via hacking to make profits or to benefit, not just to vandalize. Crackers find exploits for system vulnerabilities
Hacker Manifesto we were doing it. The article is quoted several times in the 1995 movie "Hackers", although in the movie it is being read from an issue of the hacker magazine "2600", not the historically accurate "Phrack". The Mentor gave a reading of "The Hacker Manifesto" and offered additional insight at H2K2. It is also an item in the game "Culpa Innata". Hacker Manifesto The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto) is a small essay written January 8, 1986 by a computer security hacker who went by the handle (or pseudonym) of The Mentor (born Loyd Blankenship),