Re: HELP: Got in security trouble.
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
:
: > > Below is yet another story of hacker attack,...
: >
: > Please do not refer to these people as hackers. This is not Newsweek.
:
: Okay...then what are they? Gremlins? Heh..sorry. :-)
:
: In all seriousness, what would you call them? I understand that those of
: us who "hack" code to improve it may also be called hackers, such as Linux
: kernel hackers. The rest of the world external to the "computer world"
: seems to have adopted the term "hacker" to mean a person who performs
: computer/network related malicious acts.
How about crackers, criminals, miscreants, vandals ...
: Who is right and who is wrong? I would have to say neither. Each of us
: is entitled to their own interpretation.
Sure. You're entitled to any interpretation you please, but that
doesn't make you "right". Take a look at the jargon file.
: Thank you for taking Hacker Philosophy 101. We now return you to your
: Debian scheduled program. :-)
:
: -Ossama
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