(idea) by CaptainSpam Fri Mar 03 2000 at 19:21:28
Term derived from Westerns wherein the hero usually wore a white hat (Typically always clean, no matter what happened). This is the opposite of a Black Hat, which is a person who was the villan.

Still not related to Red Hat.

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(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 18:26:50
White Book = W = whitelist

white hat

See black hat.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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