On 16 Jun 99 at 18:30, Gunnar Thoele wrote:
> (hey, what's so bad about hacking? It's the same old
> problem with the differences between "hacking" and "cracking"),
Very hard to tell people about that.
I cant count the number of times I was attacked in IRC
and other chat services after correcting someone that "A hacker
do not do that, thats what a Cracker do.". They usually claim
that I am pro-hacker, so I deserve it. How nice.
> I did not really notice that with other people here, only with my
> friends thinking "He must be slightly mad as he is still using a DOS-
> based email system. And he can program microcontrollers in Assembler. He
> must be a walking harddisk." I really do not like being called
> "harddisk". A lot of the other people i know do not use computers for
> anything else but playing the newest games.
Well, same here. Looks like its all over the world. Either its
a game machine, or a multi-utility office device. Though etleast
now its also a communication device of a sort.
> >I'd like to confess, that I never cared for brand names. I buy a cloth
> >because the way it looks like, and the way it feels.
> Have you read the "Hacker Jargon File"? There it says in one of its
> appendices "A portrait of a random hacker":
> "A Hacker chooses clothes for comfort, function and little maintenance
> hassles."
> You qualify as a hacker... May i ask how old you are? (As i have a
> similar feeling about my clothes with my short 21 years of life
> experience)
I am 18 years old. And, well, as far as brand names goes, i've
been like that for years. Is that mean I'm a "hacker from birth"? lol.
BTW, I tried to use the Jargon file site references of a Hacker
and a Cracker when talking to people about the subject. Doesnt
seem to work, though. If you are intrested, there is an on going
descussion about "What is a Hacker, anyway?" in CNN's forums.
Someone allready tried to post the direct URLs to the definitions,
but it didnt seemed to convince anyone.
> Oh, whereever i said "here" above, i mean a rural area in northern
> germany, 100 km north-west from Hamburg, where i live.
And whenever I say "here", I (usually) means to Israel. :)
Or Botton
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