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Fear and Loathing in Information Security
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Hacking - The Press/Media is the problem |
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2005-02-13 08:58:25 |
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j.f.m.
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Response to: Hacking
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Just to repeat it once again. The term "Hacker" is far older than the first articles in mainstream papers, magazines or TV. Some ignorant (or lazy) journalists used the term in a too narrow or even wrong context when the first "prime time breakins" happened in the early 8ies. The correct term for people breaking into computer systems or circumventing protection mechanisms has always been "crackers" - it's as simple as that.
It just as moronic as when Nixon said "nucular" instead of "nuclear". Many people copied it because he was Prez at the time! You would not change your name because all people or the media get it wrong, or would you?
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