And when is it necessary to stop and why?
Why could I cause greater damage?
You see, the hacker ethic is not explained by anyone, there are no courses of ethical hackers, also because there should be someone extremely ethical to be able to explain in detail how not to go the line of ethics and what are the most common mistakes .
Line, I talked about line yes. Imagine being within a set of mathematics: the ethical set. You can go around the whole set which is not small, you can also approach the line of the whole, you can stand on it for a short time, if you go beyond the set, you can go back inside the real ethical set, but there are problems in doing it.
You can do it once, then return to your ethical set, you can do it repeatedly and always come back; the fact is that the first time you say "but yes, it is only once then I do not anymore", but then you find yourself in a critical situation do not know how to find evidence to arrest a criminal and here you say again "but yes, come on. .. "and here is the second time. Then there will be a third, a fourth and then there will be that time you say "it is too difficult to continue with the ethics so I can take them even so" and go on the side of the black without you have noticed. The only thing is that you keep taking criminals, but you're no longer hethical hackers, you're no longer forensic, just do their job.
You do not always leave the white hack for your own will, many times you do it out of inattention or lack of knowledge; especially when it comes to social engineering, white social engineering can have more traps than any other investigative method.
We list some case studies without publishing the names of the interested parties and the state where it happened due to privacy issues and will not give names of programs, for personal ethics.
Years ago a pedophile was found on a site for children and boys, the pedophile used a particular program in which he could include more messengers contacts (the Microsoft service) and be able to chat on everyone at the same time. This pedophile had more false profiles with which he lured people, including many children and many parents, in fact, one of his techniques was to get in touch with parents to send pictures or send trojans and malware through photos and social engineering to second of what he found in the hardisk of the PC object up to the parents' children. In this specific case he was facilitated, the boy was psychologically weak, he was confused and his parents did not control what he did on the internet. Obtained the logs with the evidence that this pedophile used more false profiles to lure children were brought to the police, for their superficiality in not carrying out the checks briefly and effectively the boy was raped at the age of 15, he was mentally manipulated that he believed to love a person who was more than twice his age from which he would constantly try to leave him in the years to come, but pedophiles have a strong sense of plagiarism in making victims feel guilty, because they leave them.
They constantly remind him that it is their fault, because they wanted it the same way they do rapists and stalkers with phrases like "it is logical, it is natural, that others touch you, want to have sex count, they turn away they do not love you, they block you and they do not want to talk to you. It's your fault because you're the wrong one. This mantra is constantly repeated to the victims who are subjected to their manipulators. After many years, that boy became an adult and the pedophile who became his lover taught him his tricks, even informatics to defraud people. In fact, with the same trick of multiple profiles looking for people to be duped and get money, ran into a woman who harassed on the internet with their profiles until the prince arrived to save it in reality (if someone thinks it is the pedophile to have sacrificed, no, it was the boy), once hooked in real life stole a lot of money with the excuse of running away with the boy who was half his girlfriend's years.The woman only managed the fraud a long time later and when she demanded the money back she was killed by the boy and her lover.
Now, we can discuss the fact that if the woman had to die she would have died anyway and keeping it as a fixed point of our case study we move the inside a bit: if the police had investigated more accurately and better she would have saved a boy (or rather many) from a pedophile, he would have avoided unnecessary psychological tortures, he would not have cheated many women and finally he would not have killed. The woman would have died anyway, maybe falling off the ladder.
For other case studies I will be shorter to avoid too obvious links and ruin the work of others.
A police consultant made a mistake a few years ago in social engineering and in finding the real culprit, he thought that the victim of a rape was a pedophile, so he began to investigate but found nothing. Not content, but continued his investigation not understanding the behavior of the victim and convinced by the famous phrase "Sooner or later we fall and I take it" continued his work, things went differently the true pedophile "escaped" (virtually speaking) and he continued to harass and rape children the victim had been raped when he was infant and his behavior was due to a post-traumatic stress never solved and to panic attacks. She was only trying to warn who the man really was, the unbeliever victim and many others were victims in turn.
A few years ago in a social network very used by young people someone put his problems online, those little big problems that all teenagers all over the world have, soon his profile was filled with insults, many were his classmates (for them it was funny), but others were masked adults under the anonymity (the anonymity of the IP is not the nickname) and began to accuse the boy of 14 years of getting hurt, had to cut his wrists and arms and then post the photos, then they began insistently to tell him to commit suicide, the boy's parents went to the police but they disregarded the case, they were anonymous they could not be taken. A few months later the fourteen year old committed suicide. They took the parents' reports into consideration only after the journalists talked about the matter and after about ten dead kids.
A few years ago a consultant was authorized to intercept some routine phone calls, for checks ordered from above, during a phone call in which the intercepted was angry because under stalking and therefore he was in a moment of personal crisis also because his interlocutor was not Understanding his discomfort, the consultant signaled the victim as a mythomaniac, unstable, unbelievable. An error like this can ruin the lives of others, because an intelligence report on someone is a gospel for all local and international administrations, maybe then finds a terrorist and is not believed and an attack happens (after this report I do not know what has occurred of the intercepted).
Another case study was in an indefinite period after 11 September 2001 to date now. A policeman called to listen to telephone and telematic wiretaps, was so taken by his personal grudge against the terrorists and what they had done, that he came to hate the immigrants and all the Muslims, he was wrong to talk to a second-generation citizen, insulted him, he laughed at him, continued for months; so much was the policeman who deserved it and when that boy went to the police to get justice he never received an answer; being a colleague justified him with the fact that the investigations had convinced him that he was a terrorist, so to believe a terrorist, the colleague was certainly right. That boy became a true terrorist even if he was not before and he made an attack in some country in the world.
The last case study is this: a group of black hat agreed and published the names and surnames and addresses of some members of the police, the thing immediately had a feedback of very high views, within a day with a fake defacing the profiles of members of the police were eliminated from the web, completely, could not even reach the cache and digital archives and this is not possible unless the same who have not put them have not also removed. This is the first case of corruption of a public official that exists; in fact, it is from that moment that one of the black has manipulated the law enforcement while continuing to remember that in the end they have eliminated the addresses of their circulating on the network so if then they send malware to companies because they pay for theft of employee data, to get a ransom or theft of brands and technologies for other companies is a small price to pay, these black hackers are still around and have not been put in jail, although they should be there.
Surely, in the office you will have your mother telling you "it's for your country" "it's for the social estate" "the end justifies the means" "is a necessary evil for a superior good" etcetera et cetera. Unfortunately, however, if you voluntarily or involuntarily wrong you can not always go back and the evil you do to others remains and you can hide behind any excuse you want to silence your conscience, but it is always the rule that if you cross that line you are out and you are not different from who you want to arrest or from one of the black.
You can do a last test to confirm what I said before, we have only three cases: the first, think that this article is correct or that needs some change you think similarly to what is written, you are still white; the second, this article has disturbed you a little, has corked your stomach or makes you uncomfortable, you know that you are wrong that you are not working properly but you are recoverable, return to the ethical whole and this time remain; the third, this article pissed you off, you're laughing at what I wrote, you're insulting me, you're telling me that I do not have to teach you anything, that I lied, that I do not put the sources, that I'm a troll, that I do not understand a shit, that I do not understand anything because there is the superior good and only you paladins and heroes can solve the problem, you're not white or maybe you've never been, change profession before ruining people for good that they would the right to live their lives for the famous superior good changed profession.
Heba