Being a blackhat hacker is not something to boast about. Criminals do not noticably go down to the local bar and announce their allegiance to the criminal fraternity. There is kudos in having the skill to 'hack' a system and reveal its vulnerabilities - to use that knowledge to exploit them is immoral, unethical, illegal etc.
Actually talk to any moron who'd push the H word outside the contexts of jokes and insults... and you'd find that these people are the biggest egotist we as the human species could possably have to offer. Look cool in front of one guy and when asked, any random Joe from around the corner would do ANYTHING to match or out-do the status quo.

"unethical" please... tell me your not talking about the crap they feed kids in that faq or manifesto thingie... whatever the hell its called. Its all a load of crap. That thing just further feeds the social disease we call "l33t h4x0r".

Kids read that and instead sparking any true interest or enjoyment with computers... the entire thing obviously back-fired and now we've ended up with a countless number of folks trying to keep an image and useing computers as the tool of choice to do just that. People term every little computer related task now days into a small phrase, "the scene"... and thats what things are now. If it was ever a "learning thing" or "just a hobby" then those days are clearly dead and gone.

And as far as right and wrong yada yada... I see things like this, shifting bits and network traffic. Something so minor, you can't point at it and tell me its wrong or unethical.