Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!hplb.hpl.hp.com!gray From: gray@HPLB.HPL.HP.COM (Graham Higgins) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Re: PORTRAIT OF A HACKER (forwarded) Message-ID: Date: 25 May 90 16:24:50 GMT References: <3065.9005251149@sund.cc.ic.ac.uk> Sender: nobody@rutgers.rutgers.edu Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 27 Approved: nobody@rutgers.rutgers.edu Indeed, the term "hacker" has come in for a bit of distortion recently, I'd agree that "cracker" would probably be a good description of the type of computer user who tries to gain unauthorised access to computer systems. However, I find it a little strange that all the true hackers known to me appear to conform remarkably well to the bulk of the personality description provided by A.J.Annala --- but *not* to the motivational analysis which followed it. Obligatory Hacking report: (not mine, but a colleague's) Implementing a Lisp interpreter on a hand-held calculator. -- Graham ====== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins | Phone: (0272) 799910 x 24060 Hewlett-Packard Labs | gray@hpl.hp.co.uk Bristol | gray%hplb.uucp@ukc.ac.uk U.K. | gray@hplb.hpl.hp.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------