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[Markie, 2004-07-23]
>  The hackers are likely to just try whatever exploit anyway. They'll even
>  probably be thinking "Oh, they're hiding their version... probably quite old"
>  :-) Best just to keep up to date.

I know that in modern English the word "hacker" has more than one meaning,
but I think that at least within the community we should try to resist
completely washing the word for its older meaning.

You should use "attacker" er something similar instead.

Sorry for beeing off-topic, just my two cents.