the actions of a black and grey hat hacker look the same, a grey hat hacker
will not misuse the system by for example planting back doors. To notice the
difference between black and grey hat one has to know and master the
-techniques,
+techniques.
All of this means that there is an extremely thin line between grey and black
hat hacking. Some might even argue that there is no difference. Allowing or
even encouraging grey hat hacking leads to the classical slippery slope
-problem. The best solution would be to tolerate, not actively chasing them,
-grey hat hackers and keep testing the boundaries using judges and lawyers. In
-this way true grey hat hackers will only be bothered and not punished and true
-black hat hackers will be punished true the court of law.
+problem. The confusion arises from the fact that opinions might differ. Imagine
+a case where medical data has been compromised but the hacker did not look at
+the data. The stakeholders in the privacy of the data such as patients and
+doctors might view the deed as black hat. On the other hand, the hacker himself
+might view the case a grey hat because he informed the administrators and did
+not touch the data. Especially while the current view on hacking ever so much
+is changing it very quickly becomes a slippery slope.
+
+The best solution in my opinion would be to tolerate, not actively chasing them,
+grey hat hackers and keep testing the boundaries using the court of law. In
+this way true grey hat hackers will possibly be bothered and not punished and
+true black hat hackers will be punished true the court of law. Society will
+change and with it the view on hacking. Police forces will have to acquire
+trained IT professionals to keep up the pace with the black hat hackers.
\section{Web Scrapers and Robot Denial Files}
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