> jon baer wrote:
>  > http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/nhack11_20031111.htm
>
> "They may have been engaged in the recent hacker craze known as
> "wardriving" -- cruising around with a specially equipped laptop and an
> antenna searching for unsecured wireless networks hooked to the Internet."
>
> Ouch...combining "wardriving" and "hacking" in the same
> sentance...that's rough. Big emphasis on the quotes, because those words
> are always out of context...

See? Even you are doing it. Hacking isn't bad, but the common (and
incorrect) connotation is that it is bad. I'm sure people who don't know
would think that, based on the sound of it, "wardriving" has to be
something bad.

Of course, expecting a journalist to qualify these words properly is like
expecting a politician to keep his / her word - it's nice when it happens,
but nobody has any realistic expectations that it will happen.

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs
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