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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Hey Robert Morris and others -- please do something about 'HACKER'
Message-ID: <2276@looking.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 00:01:30 GMT
Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo Ont.
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The net may never get this much attention again, at least not for some time.

So I ask those of you who are being interviewed, whether you had something
to do with this worm/virus or not, to try and do something about the
media's annoying redefinition of "hacker."   Before start talking to
you, tell them politely not to call the creator of the "virus" a hacker.
Tell them it means wizard, not criminal, and suggest they use "cracker."

Tell them "hacker" is like "ace journalist" and "cracker" is like
"unethical reporter," and ask them how they would feel if people went
around calling lawbreaking journalists "aces."

Then go on with the interview.  They'll probably ignore it, but maybe
one of them won't.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473