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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Hacker.  A definition.
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Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 14:39:05 EST
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The complaint the author of the original article was making was that the term
"hacking", which has in the past referred to, well, frenetic late-night
*legitimate* software development (or, at worst, game software development)
has been redefined by the media to mean breaking into computers.  So he was
not saying that breaking into computers was legitimate; he was saying that
referring to breaking into computers as "hacking" was illegitimate.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy