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:

    “If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they’re killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We’d not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
    —Spike Lee (b. 1956)

    “Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
    Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
    The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
    Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)