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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: hacking (was: Rastan GS)
Message-ID: <14059@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Oct 90 19:09:01 GMT
References: <9096@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <7586@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Oct8.181959.27648@ee.rochester.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Oct8.181959.27648@ee.rochester.edu> seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) writes:
>... The professionals continued to see the hackers as
>a threat because, quite frankly, they knew what they were doing and
>understood the system on an almost intuitive level.

Competent professionals understood what was wrong with hacking in the
first solution to a problem that happened to come to mind.  The great
cost of software is frequently due to problems introduced by a hacking
mentality.