On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:20:31 +0300, Or Botton wrote:
> Whats so bad about being a Hacker? of course, being a
> Cracker is a bad thing.
Common misconceptions, yes... but probably correct.
Quoted from Oxford Advanced Dictionary (1980):
* hack[er?]
2. person paid to do hard and uninteresting work as
a writer
* cracker
1. thin, flaky, dry biscuit (as eaten with cheese)
See? Being a cracker is not so bad, the only drawback is
that you are edible! We can eat you! :-)
Anyway, *currently* the term "hacker" commonly associated
to "criminal hacker". IMHO, (your) "cracker" is best if
described as the long form "criminal hacker". This is
to avoid confusion, since most people *always* associated
"cracker" as biscuit.
Try yourself, ask your neightbors: "What is a cracker?" ;)
--Eko
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