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by 3JPLW 4574 days ago
From Wikipedia, which agrees with my understanding of the phrase: "… such people sometimes act illegally, though in good will, to identify vulnerabilities in computing processes." My point, though, is that it's hardly out of scope when it's a valuable resource for developing novel attacks on in-scope domains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_hat