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white hat
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white hat
n
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Informal
a.  a computer hacker who is hired by an organization to undertake nonmalicious hacking work in order to discover computer-security flaws
b.  (as modifier) a white-hat hacker Compare black hat
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