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:

    “Rain falls for centuries
    Soaking the loose rocks in space
    Sweet rain, the fire’s out
    The black snag glistens in the rain
    & the last wisp of smoke floats up”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “But off with your hat and three times three for Columbia’s
    true-blue sons,
    The men below who batter the foe—the men behind the guns!”
    —John Jerome Rooney (1866–1934)