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Warez. A subculture of crackers that refer to themselves as warez where they obtain illegal copies of copyrighted software. If it has copy protection on it, they break the protection so the software can be copied. Then they distribute it around the world via several gateways often the Usenet.
Whitehat. A white hat hacker, also rendered as ethical hacker, is, in the realm of information technology, a person who is ethically opposed to the abuse of computer systems. In recent years the terms Whitehat and Blackhat have been applied to the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry. Black hat SEO tactics, also called spamdexing, attempt to redirect search results to particular target pages, whereas white hat methods are generally approved by the search engines.
Worm. A computer program that replicates itself and is self-propagating. Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments via servers.