'Jamie Woodruff 'hacked' Kim Kardashian – and he'll hack your company for a fee'
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/jamie-woodruff-cybersecurity
The technical director of Metric Cloud ethically hacks into companies in order to discover their security weaknesses
Woodruff first came into the public eye when he hacked Facebook for a student project
He is now been hired to hack companies to find their security weaknesses
He is a social engineer who "ethically hacks" companies
This debate of ethics is one that clearly needs to be questioned as it acts as a complete oxymoron "ethical hacking." Hacking is far from ethical, in my opinion I believe that the invasion of someone's privacy is a violation of their own rights and personal information, therefore for companies to be doing this it makes us question how safe we are as individuals and mere civilians - if this man can hack into companies who have increasingly high protection implemented, how easy would it be for someone to hack into our lives and steal our information. In some ways this could be seen as a positive thing as it enables companies to higher their security systems and detect the flaws, however the companies that are being hacked will obviously be unaware of this hacking which makes it highly unethical and could unveil negative information that could potentially ruin an institution.
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