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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Use TWIT instead of HACKER
Message-ID: <189@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 08:23:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 17 08:23:42 1983
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	Finally decided to jump in and participate in the HACKER/CRACKER
	discussion:

	Too late, I am afraid, to save the "unblemished" reputation of
	the term HACKER, and I am in grief.  But let's not recommend
	the term CRACKER, please, let's find something that sounds as
	dissimilar to it as possible.  I have not put thought to inventing
	or recommending a term, but, maybe, I will have by the end of this
	article.
	But let's not allow them to make HACKER an accepted term for the
	bad guys,  pleeeaaase.

	I also like a recent recommendation of using the term WIZARD only,
	and abandon the word HACKER completely.  Other terms were also
	mentioned, but I'll try to train myself to replace HACKER with
	WIZARD in my usage.  There is just one problem.  Whereas I never
	had any inhibition to identify myself as a "fellow-hacker",
	I hesitate to call myself a "wizard".  Sounds as if I was
	claiming too high a computer-status and could be misinterpreted
	as "computer-snobbery".  It's really a dilemma ....

	If only they'd never misused HACKER to mean the bad guys, CRACKER
	would actually not have been bad, even though it is in use already
	among blacks and "educated" others, and outside Georgia, of course.
	Well it's also used in connection with safes and backs and codes.
	So lets find a term, agree on it, and then "FORCE IT ON THE MEDIA"
	with determination.

	No, inspiration has not struck me, but I'll give it some thought
	"offline".