What is in a name?
I had a bit of fun when I chose the name for this blog. You see, there?s some humour in hacking circles. I don?t know if it is intentional or not? I actually rather think the latter, but let us be? nice.
When you enter the hacking areas of the net, you get to hear about something they call ?the black hats? versus ?the white hats?. The white hats are the hackers in the employ of corporate anywhere, and their task is to make sure the black hats can?t do what the white hats are paid to do.
I know, it is a bit confusing. But that?s boys for you. Boys that have spent a lot of time in front of computers in their rooms while their school mates snogged with the pretty girls. I should know about that. Not that I want to snog pretty girls, of course.
Boys like that start to build illusions, and they start to build an ethos that?s going to make them? well superior to the guys that get to snog.
This is actually a nice post, honest. I?m not here to offend. I?m here to write about what I find in the glades where the black hats meet, and in the glades where the white hats meet.
I make no claim what so ever of being any kind of white or black hat. In other words, I?m not a hacker. I just don?t know enough to be one. I didn?t spend that much time in my room in front of the computer in my youth. No, that doesn?t mean I snogged pretty girls either.
Why do it? Well, I got hacked, of course! In the same way a mugging victim becomes somewhat obsessed with personal robbery issues, I’m at present somewhat obsessed with hacking issues. Only, I find them amusing in some way. Particularly when it comes to their choice of team names. There used to be two political parties called hats and caps in Sweden in the 17th century. So, in celebration of the age of freedom, I hereby bestow the name ‘hats’ on the white hats and the name ‘caps’ on the white hats. Caps go so much better with their choice of lifestyle, after all.
And that says all about the name of this blog. This will be a blog about the hats, the caps and their issues. Oh, and I’ll even try to be nice about it, even though it stung to realize I’d had one of the caps as a guest in my net for quite some time before I accidentally discovered him.
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