Un ejemplo de un caso de gray hack que he leído muy interesante ;) es el siguiente:
The apache.org hack. by {} and Hardbeat
In April 2004, grey hat hackers gained unauthorized access to apache.org. These people could have tried to damage apache.org servers, write text offensive to apache crew, or distribute trojans or other malicious actions. Instead, they choose just alert apache crew of the problems and then publish this article, beginning with:
This paper does _not_ uncover any new vulnerabilities. It points out common
(and slightly less common) configuration errors, which even the people at
apache.org made. This is a general warning. Learn from it. Fix your systems,
so we won't have to :)
This paper describes how, over the course of a week, we succeeded in
getting root access to the machine running www.apache.org, and changed
the main page to show a 'Powered by Microsoft BackOffice' logo instead
of the default 'Powered by Apache' logo (the feather). No other changes
were made, except to prevent other (possibly malicious) people getting in.
Este ejemplo es muy bueno, los hackers entran a la red de redes Internet a practicar y a competir, ya que seguro la red de su casa es obviamente muy chiquita y poco atractiva para ellos :P :P. Bueno la pregunta de altruista queda para que lo defina cada uno con su propio criterio porque este tema es muy controversial y dará que hablar, ahora mi pregunta es... pueden haber hackers considerados los medios malos?
Saludos,
Pedro Valera L. (Administrador)
Fuente del ejemplo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_hat
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