I was using the idea of shady stuff as at least some way to look at some code that for instance turns off a computer's fan to force it to overheat... I would call that shady because while someone could be using it to increase cybersecurity the likelihood would be much more negative hence my reasoning. 

Cje95

Even shady software can have uses -- the same software a hacker might use to get into a system is used by pen testers and white hat hackers to test and secure those same systems. Code is neutral.