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From: yba@arrow.bellcore.com (Mark Levine)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (Security checkup) Choosing a phrase to replace hacker
Summary: media needs, get us out of here
Keywords: security intruder self-help
Message-ID: <915@sword.bellcore.com>
Date: 11 Oct 88 16:27:16 GMT
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You have missed the important point: finding a phase the _media_ will adopt.
The mass media need "gimmicks" to keep their audiences, or so they behave.
They will not use "criminal" _et. al._ because there is no connotation
specific to computers, high tech, or anything else associated with a computer
hacker as criminal.

Also, no one came up with a better forum for discussing same.  I believe that
by default it should be misc.headlines, and apologize for continuing in
news.sysadmin.  Feel free to correct on this.

Eleazor bar Shimon, once and future Carolingian
yba@sabre.bellcore.com