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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Definition of hacker (argument)
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 07:50:58 EDT
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> There are always articles about "Hackers break into DODs computer, Read top
> secret documents", etc.  Furthermore, there are a number of books out like:
> "Out of the Inner Circle: Confessions of a Hacker".  These definitions
> will override anything that we would like to use.

I see, in much the same way that the British press made "yankee" a term of
approbium around the time of the American Rebellion. Well, with that sort of
precedent I guess we better just give up & let the high-school modem-freakers
have the term.


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