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The lines between white hat/gray hat/black hat hacking and moral laws

Dave Farquhar security January 26, 2013January 25, 2013apple, CEH, cissp, demonstration, os x, pixar, White Hat

Longtime reader/commenter Joseph asked two questions yesterday: What’s the boundary between gray and black-hat hacking, and is it moral to pick and choose between moral and immoral laws?

The first question is easier than the second. So I’ll tackle that one first. Read more

How to secure your wi-fi router

Dave Farquhar Servers and Networking October 10, 2010November 27, 2018android, linksys, netgear, passwords, SSID, vulnerability, WAN, WEP, White Hat, wi-fi, wrt54g

It’s not enough to know what to look for in a router. I wanted to get some solid advice on wi-fi network security. Who better to give that advice than someone who built an airplane that hacks wi-fi? So I talked to WhiteQueen at http://rabbit-hole.org, the co-builder of a wi-fi hacking airplane that made waves at Defcon.

Hacker stereotypes aside, WhiteQueen was very forthcoming. He’s a white hat, and I found him eager to share what he knows.