Black Hat

Black hat may refer to:

  • Black hat (film), a film's villain or bad guy, especially one literally wearing a black hat in a western, in contrast to the hero's white hat
  • Black hat hacking, Internet slang for someone violating computer or Internet security
  • Black Hat Briefings, a computer security conference
  • the Iron Brigade, also known as the Black Hat Brigade, an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War
  • "Black Hat" Lamas, a term used for practitioners of Karma Kagu, in reference to the Black Crown worn by the Karmapa
  • Haredi Jews, of whom the men wear characteristic black hats and coats.
  • Fear of a Black Hat, a 1994 American mockumentary film on the evolution and state of American hip hop music

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or hat:

    “When I from black and he from white cloud free,
    And round the tent of Godlike lambs we joy,

    I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear
    To lean in joy upon our father’s knee;
    And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair,
    And be like him, and he will then love me.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister’s friends can’t or won’t. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)