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Originally Posted by Steve H
Surely if you both give each other consent to "hack" into each others systems, then its perfectly fine? Seeing as hacking is usually defined as gaining unauthorised access to something..
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Exactly the point i was going to make... you are not actually a hacker, instead you are an ethical hacker!!
Look at a definition here:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...921117,00.html
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An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. To test a security system, ethical hackers use the same methods as their less principled counterparts, but report problems instead of taking advantage of them. Ethical hacking is also known as penetration testing, intrusion testing, and red teaming. An ethical hacker is sometimes called a white hat, a term that comes from old Western movies, where the "good guy" wore a white hat and the "bad guy" wore a black hat.
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