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From: trivedi@motcid.UUCP (Kamlesh Trivedi)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: hacker = computer criminal
Summary: media twists hacker to mean computer criminal
Keywords: hacker stoll nova
Message-ID: <4761@bone25.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 90 13:35:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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I have read some posts here and the articles in c.u.d that try to preserve the
label hacker.  I think it's a lost cause.  Yesterday's _Nova_ on Cliff Stoll's
story proves it.  The popular media has "latched" onto the term and are
indiscriminately using it to mean: an individual who breaks into corporate/
government computers and maliciously changes things.  Stoll and the "hackers"
from Germany referred to the activities of the Germans as "hacking" not as
"intruding", "espionage", etc.

I just keep thinking of the time Wozniak was on _Nightline_ talking about
how he wanted his kids to grow up to be like the hackers he was seeing in '83.
-- 
Kamlesh Trivedi -  ...!uunet!motcid!trivedik - My opinions not Motorola's
"Since everyone knows me, everything I do now is newsworthy.
I'm a cultural icon." - Calvin 10/2