Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bbn.com!cosell From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: A Super(cilious)Nova Message-ID: <59869@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 7 Oct 90 10:29:11 GMT References: <188@netsys.NETSYS.COM> Sender: news@bbn.com Lines: 24 peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: }In article <188@netsys.NETSYS.COM> TK0JUT2%NIU.BITNET@UICVM.uic.edu writes: }> The Nova program had the opportunity to clarify for the non-computer literate }> audience the nature of the hacking community and computer underground. It }> failed. }I wish I could find it amusing that the folks who misappropriated our }good name have found themselves in the same sticky wicket, but I'm all }to familiar with the history of witch-hunts to be sufficiently distanced }from the subject. I know... the growth and change of language is a real bitch. Think about what the people who were in the old movie "The Gay Divorcee" must think. although I, too, fancy myself something of an old-style 'hacker', I've given up the fight: the word has changed meaning and that's pretty much it. This is not to be happy about it, but to continue to shovel against the tide is silly. As far as I can tell, there *is*no* word at the moment for what we used to call a 'hacker' in the 60's. And essentially no one misses its absence, except for a small number of us. /Bernie\