On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : : > > 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. :-) : : In all seriousness, what would you call them? I understand that those of : us who "hack" code to improve it may also be called hackers, such as Linux : kernel hackers. The rest of the world external to the "computer world" : seems to have adopted the term "hacker" to mean a person who performs : computer/network related malicious acts.
How about crackers, criminals, miscreants, vandals ... : Who is right and who is wrong? I would have to say neither. Each of us : is entitled to their own interpretation. Sure. You're entitled to any interpretation you please, but that doesn't make you "right". Take a look at the jargon file. : Thank you for taking Hacker Philosophy 101. We now return you to your : Debian scheduled program. :-) : : -Ossama -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
