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From: nate@mipos2.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security checkup
Keywords: security intruder self-help
Message-ID: <2985@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 6 Oct 88 16:45:52 GMT
References: <167@carpet.WLK.COM> <1454@lznv.ATT.COM> <1834@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <307@mccc.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)

In article <307@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>Could we stop calling those people who break in "hackers"?  Let's not
>continue to support the public's gross misuse of that once-honorable
>appellation.

I agree.  As an alternative that I would like to see the media pick up
on, how about "cracker"?

--woodstock
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