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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: i don't wanna be a hacker anymore...
Message-ID: <20413@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 22:37:18 GMT
References: <10035@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <39489@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Approved: Sure.  Why not?

In article <39489@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v116kznd@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:

}... I thought hackers never really cared what other people (except for
}other hackers) thought about themselves.

I'm afraid a fellow hacker has done us in.  Cliff Stoll referred to the
crackers he tracked down as hackers on his PBS special.  He even made a
point of defining hackers as people who break into computer systems.

Given that kind of publicity, with the credibility of PBS and Stoll behind
it, I think the battle is well and truly lost. )-:

Obligatory hack?  I'm not allowed to talk about most of what I do around
here.  Sorry about that.

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