In today's Sunday Times, first page at the bottom, there is an article
about cybercrime/email macro viruses/worms etc.
Written by Shabnam Minwalla, this is one of the few newspaper articles
I've seen where the author doesn't use the term `hacker' when she should
mean `cracker' even attributing cracking to wAreZ d00dZ. She also
mentions clearly to the fact that viruses/worms like melissa/iloveyou are
macro viruses unlike `Happy Birthday Joshi' and others.
At a later part of the article, she mentions crackers and phreakers but
never hackers.
The author is obviously better informed than all of the so called
`experts' interviewed. Every one of them referred to crackers as hackers,
and the act of cracking as hacking. They also generalised viruses, worms
and trojans into viruses.
The only places where hack has been mentioned in this article are in the
quotes from experts.
I think there should be more `well informed' writers with newspapers.
I also think that papers should at some point print informational articles
that outline the difference between hackers and crackers.
I think I'm gonna write to the paper and commend the writer. Give credit
where it's due.
Philip
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