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:

    “To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.... On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”
    —Stephen Carter (b. 1954)

    “The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)