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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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Subject: Re: hacker vs. cracker (was Re: Bringing Finder frontmost...)
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Date: 8 Jun 91 06:19:06 GMT
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In article <FRANCIS.91Jun6141014@daisy.uchicago.edu>, francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
> In article <0B01FFFB.hfj14n@outpost.UUCP> peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:
> 
> >I was using the term HACK to mean a quick and elegant little program
> >that gets the job done.  This is the good connotation of this word,
> >not the bad.  Sort of like describing myself as a hacker.  I don't
> >mean I break into systems and steal national security secrets, but
> 
> Isn't that called a cracker now?

Exactly, but many people still use hacker when they should use cracker.

The mass media is especially notorious for labeling crooks as hackers.

-- michael peirce

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