white hat
After Watergate, Republicans were seen as the black hats of the campaign business.
"That's the problem with most cop shows," he explains. "It's the black hat, white hat thing."
In the early days black hats were low-rent hackers, working from home.
We want to bring the fringe elements of the hacking community on board, and steer them away from being "black hats" - the malicious hackers responsible for website defacement and security breaches.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Morally wrong and evil
abhorrent
abhorrently
amoral
amorality
anomie
dissolute
dissolutely
dissoluteness
enormity
evil
nefariousness
no goodidiom
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non-ethical
obscene
trespass
turpitude
unconscionable
unconscionably
unethical
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