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stavros
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Black Hat hacker details lethal wireless attack on...
How is this a black hat hacker if all he did was expose the vulnerability, rather than exploit it?
omh
on Aug 5, 2011
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"Black Hat" refers to the security conference, currently happening in Vegas.
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Seems odd to call him a "black hat hacker" just for being at the conference. He could very well just attend all of the security-related conferences. The headline implies to me that he plans to use this exploit nefariously.
stavros
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Ah, the conference is called "Black Hat". They mean "a hacker who was attending Black Hat".
stavros
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I see, thanks for the clarification.
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