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Originally Posted by shegeek72
I think it's important to distinguish between malicious, or black or gray hat, hackers (also known as crackers) and the good guys: white hat hackers. It's slugs like those who cracked the website that give legit hackers a bad name. 
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If you have the owners permission, you are not a hacker. If you don't have permission, you are no different than a thief. There is no such thing as a legit hacker, they exist only as a common oxymoron.
When I make sure my door is locked when I leave my house, I am securing my property, not using my leet white hat burglar skilz. When I test a weakness in a systems my company or employer owns, I am a security professional doing my job, not a hacker. Same with testing and reporting to the industry in general, with the goal of defending against these amd other attacks.
These jerks deserve no ambigious language to hide behind. They are destructive and subversive criminals. Trying to grey the lines between good and bad is the agenda of evil and deception. Truth is both binary and polarizing.
Not a personal attack - I am implying -only- that you are repeating a common mistake that removes clarity while claiming to clarify.