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From: IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re:  Hackers in the universe, unite.
Message-ID: <8805131547.AA21651@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 May 88 13:11:00 GMT
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Amen.  A hacker is anybody that sometimes does computing simply for love
of his art.  A hacker who hacks others' security systems should be called
a cracker, or the more traditional thief/vandal/forger/burglar/blackmailer.

Most hacking is honorable, even if it isn't always cost-justifiable.  (And
sometimes, cost-justification takes months or years to appear. :-)  Although
the news media have ignobly, and probably irrevocably, stripped us of our
proper title and given it to the criminals, I'm proud to be a hacker.
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