Re: HELP: Got in security trouble.

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

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> > > Below is yet another story of hacker attack,...
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> > Please do not refer to these people as hackers.  This is not Newsweek.
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> Okay...then what are they?  Gremlins?  Heh..sorry.  :-)

:cracker: /n./  One who breaks security on a system.  Coined
   ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of
   {hacker} (q.v., sense 8).  An earlier attempt to establish
   `worm' in this sense around 1981--82 on Usenet was largely a
   failure.

It's in the jargon file, that indispensable source of information for
those who know everything better ;)  Of course it is in it's own debian
package as an info file.

Eric


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