White Hat

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(idea) by CaptainSpam (4.9 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Mar 03 2000 at 19:21:28

Term derived from Westerns wherein the hero usually wore a white hat (Typically always clean, no matter what happened). This is the opposite of a Black Hat, which is a person who was the villan.

Still not related to Red Hat.

(idea) by Jargon (1.8 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Jul 19 2001 at 18:26:50

white hat

See black hat.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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hacker	Systems Administrator	White Book	wardriving
Why Fox cancelled Firefly	gray hat	Valley of the Kings	superuser
condom	Dog, the other white meat	The Red Hat Society	kbd

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