On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:28 PM, sivakumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 10:36 +0200, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
> > Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant of Sophos, has responded to
> my
> > blog asking not to use word hackers for criminals. What is your opinion?
>
> IMO, the right word is cracker.
>
> Checkout http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1392.html
>
> <snip>
>
> hacker
>      A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the
>      internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in
>      particular.  The term is often misused in a pejorative context,
>      where "cracker" would be the correct term.  See also: cracker.
>
> </snip>
>


> ++1
>

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Parin Sharma
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