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Company, that divides the hacking community. a good hacker, a white hat, reports the problems they find so other users aren't at risk. a bad hacker or black hat wants to make money for gain power. information can be sold on the black market. it's not that cut and dry. a white hat by day could be a black hat by night. for those who use the skill for good, there's always the "what if." do you ever struggle with it? do you think think about, well, what if i went the other way? >> yeah. i mean, there's always the fleeting thought, i could be on a beach, drinking out of a gold encrusted goblet. but...

The whole spider man thing, with great power comes great responsibility. >> reporter: one hacker who uses her power for good found a flaw with a wi-fi connected gun. >> you can just connect to the wireless network and you can talk directly to the back end of the system. what we tested specifically was to change the weight of the bullet. and that made the shot go two and a half feet to the left instead of the target that we were aiming at. >> reporter: so when they told the gunmaker they say it's safe to use and updated the rifle since the version she tested. it's that step telling the company ...

Of people who want freedom. >> what do you say to the folks who say anonymous breaks the law. >> if freedom is breaking the law, there's something wrong with the law. >> and the hacking community, people play by their own rules. he'll hack your website if he doesn't like what you stand for. a nazi sympathizer forum. i was connected with him. >> we had a vulnerability that a lot of privileges to compromise the whole -- find out where they were holding a meeting, called people in on the meeting. call cops on the meetings and thing like that, trying to cause as much disruption and chaos as possib...

System went back up after a massive hack that affected 4,000 employees. it was down for two weeks and just the latest. the hacking community is, for many reasons, often a secretive one. but the biggest players assembled at a conference in las vegas, out in the open. rare access to be amongst the hackers here. if you're a hacker, you have darkened shades, blackened shades, hiding in there, anonymous handle name. these guys are in sin city, having their convention. >> you think of them in basements rierkts? >> yeah. >> operating in the shadows. these are the people that scare us most. i haven't ...

And phone numbers of commanders captains and major generals. in total, about 100 members of the u.s. military. many of those singled out are pilots including this man seen holding his baby we are bluring his face to protect his identity. it was posted by a group calling itself the islamic hacking community. they are calling on sympathizers to kill service members in their own land behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk tear streets thinking they are safe. >> it could easily become something that matters from a personal security standpoint and can deeply affect the secu...