Security hacker little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain" (Moore, 2005). The term was coined by Richard Stallman, to contrast the maliciousness of a criminal hacker versus the spirit of playfulness and exploration in hacker culture, or the ethos of the white hat hacker who performs hacking duties to identify places to repair or as a means of legitimate employment. Black hat hackers form the stereotypical, illegal hacking groups often portrayed in popular culture, and are "the epitome of all that the public fears in a computer criminal". A grey hat hacker lies between a black hat and a white hat
Item-item collaborative filtering Earlier collaborative filtering systems based on rating similarity between users (known as user-user collaborative filtering) had several problems: Item-item models resolve these problems in systems that have more users than items. Item-item models use rating distributions "per item", not "per user". With more users than items, each item tends to have more ratings than each user, so an item's average rating usually doesn't change quickly. This leads to more stable rating distributions in the model, so the model doesn't have to be rebuilt as often. When users consume and then rate an item, that item's similar items are picked from