The cracker said he works as a contractor in the field of security, and perhaps it is the ease of cracking so many sites using nothing but published exploits that makes him support the "anti-disclosure movement."
Asked if he considered himself a White Hat or Black Hat, he replied that the term "grayhat" might be better, adding that "no one can be truly a whitehat". It should be noted that the IRC interview was arranged by following contact instructions left in the Themes.org defacement, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of a Fluffy Bunny imposter.
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