Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!ian From: ian@utcsstat.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin, Toronto, Canada ) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: RE: Use of hacker Message-ID: <1088@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 12:26:56 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1088 Posted: Mon Sep 19 12:26:56 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Sep-83 13:54:48 EDT References: <2335@ncsu.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 12 Gary Fostel has brought out his copy of `jargon.txt' to support the media in their use of `hacker' to mean `system breaker.' I would not undertake to argue with `jargon.txt;1', but the media are trying hard to make hacker have only meaning 6. (This was one who breaks systems, eg. `password hacker', `network hacker'). When they pick up on a buzz word, its meaning can be irrevocably changed in the minds of the public. Some hackers are malicious. So are some doctors, accountants, lawyers and, yes, furniture makers. But if the media were trying to equate the word `accountant' with the word `absconder', you would hear an outcry of possibly unrivalled proportions. We owe ourselves no less.