> > > > > > Below is yet another story of hacker attack,... > > > > Please do not refer to these people as hackers. This is not Newsweek. > > Okay...then what are they? Gremlins? Heh..sorry. :-)
:cracker: /n./ One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of {hacker} (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981--82 on Usenet was largely a failure. It's in the jargon file, that indispensable source of information for those who know everything better ;) Of course it is in it's own debian package as an info file. Eric -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .