• Indigo
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    A black hat (also called a cracker or Darkside hacker) is a malicious or criminal hacker.

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    Black-hat hacking is the act of compromising the security of a system without permission from an authorized party, usually with the intent of accessing computers connected to the network (the somewhat similar activity of defeating copy prevention devices in software - which may or may not be legal depending on the laws of the given country - is actually software cracking).