Article about White and Black Hats in Wiener Zeitung

René Pfeiffer/ May 6, 2011/ Press

Christoph Rella, a journalist who has been at past DeepSec conferences made telephone interviews with MiKa and me. He explored the difference between White Hats and Black Hats along with the motivations of hackers. He was interested in getting to know the reasons why the stereotype of the nice IT guy turns criminal. We think the motivations are vastly different, money being among them. Mr. Rella published a summary in an article for the Wiener Zeitung (in German).

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About René Pfeiffer

System administrator, lecturer, hacker, security consultant, technical writer and DeepSec organisation team member. Has done some particle physics, too. Prefers encrypted messages for the sake of admiring the mathematical algorithms at work.