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:

    “Three young rats with black felt hats,
    Three young ducks with white straw flats,”
    —Unknown. Three Young Rats (l. 1–2)

    “As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”
    —Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)