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paying someone to break into your house so a burglar doesn't do it for free.
means authorized simulated hacking of a system to find security holes before real attackers do.
from short for penetration testing, a term the military used for probing enemy defenses, borrowed by computer security in the 1960s when researchers first tried to break into time-sharing systems on purpose.
paperwork firstno signed authorization means it's just illegal hacking.
origin decaderand corporation ran early tests in the 1960s.
three flavorsblack box, white box, and gray box access levels.
real job titlecompanies literally hire people to do this full-time.