A hacker once called the Italian Kevin Mitnick has spent the past two years surveying various types of hackers from around the world to profile the hacker culture — all in an effort to help combat cyber crime. Raoul Chiesa, a reformed black-hat hacker who in his heyday was a notorious social engineer and X.25 hacker, is about to publish the first fruits of research from the so-called Hackers Profiling Project he launched nearly two years ago.