HACKER CONVERSATIONS WITH CRIS THOMAS (L0PHT HEAVY INDUSTRIES)

Summary from the TLDR Cybersecurity newsletter

In this post, Cris Thomas (AKA Space Rogue) from L0pht Heavy Industries discusses the blurry boundary between researchers and hackers, with researchers being a subset of Whitehats. Thomas believes that researchers take a more formal approach to investigations, whereas hackers hack on stuff and experiment with things to see what breaks and what still works.