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** Plus many large corporations will hire hackers to try to break their systems and advise them on how to beef it up.
**Part of the thing is that cyberwarfare is so young a phenomenon that for a while there was no other way to get a White Hat but to convince a Black Hat to change sides. This may already be changing.
* During [[World War II]] the [[OSS]] obtained a number of skilled criminals from prisons to train
** One notable case was "Operation Underworld", where the likes of Lucky Luciano were solicited to cooperate with authorities and aid with countering Axis spies in exchange for reduced sentences.
* Averted by casinos (in the US, at least), which DO NOT hire convicted cheaters to catch cheaters.
* Snitches are 'hired' by wardens and policemen to rat on their underground friends, whether for creature comforts or being left to their meanial thievery.
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* Same as how medical shows hire doctors and military shows hire former service personnel, [[Crime Show|crime shows]] have been known to hire former criminals as consultants on an ongoing basis, to advise the actors and writers and make sure they get the details right.
* Pirate [[Wikipedia:Jean Lafitte|Jean Lafitte]] in [[The War of 1812]].
* Subverted with Onel de Guzman, the author behind the infamous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU ILOVEYOU] virus. Popular rumour in the Philippines has it that de Guzman was hired either by Microsoft or international government agencies for his hacking skills, but it was revealed in 2020 that an investigative journalist found de Guzman working at a mobile phone repair stall in Manila, a stark contrast to the arguably high-profile job offers supposedly offered at him.
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