Hmmm.

This should be titled " How to hire a former Black Hat Hacker".

It leads in with turning a Russian spy to work for the US. I can't ever see the CIA ever really trusting these guys with their Top Secret information.

White Hat Hacker is a IT Security Professional, with solid references and client history, plus a clean criminal record. Trusted to provide the service required without concern about them stealing the 40 million credit cards in your database

A reformed Black Hat is someone you'd always want to keep an eye on, just in case. Period.

I hate it when these lines start to get blurred by poor research in to the actual facts.
Even the wiki would have been a better place to start ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat


/off soap box

 

It'll be interesting if he responds.

The last paragraph in the story would upset a bunch of the professionals who haven't step over that ethical line, which he's say most of them probably have.

It's a bit like he's reported on the stories told in the pub after work. They lack real depth. One of his other s talks on NAC as a security to protect again nasties from the Internet

Microsoft says "Network Access Protection is not a security solution. It is designed to help prevent computers with unsafe configurations from connecting to a private network, not to protect a private network form malicious users who have obtained a valid set of credentials."
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/network-access-protection.mspx


Bit of a disparity there ..... may be I'm just being picky on things like facts 

Please use google before posting any further ridiculous questions.