From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 13 10:18:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A1437B57C; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 10:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13O0gN-000NIy-00; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:32:19 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13O0gN-0001fA-00; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:32:19 +0100 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:32:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hacker v/s cracker Message-ID: <20000813173219.X48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000813201719.A4355@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000813201719.A4355@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ moved -chat => -doc for this bit of the thread ] Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > What is the freebsd policy on using the word "hacker"? Most old world > "hackers" seem to prefer the term "cracker" for people who break > into systems. FreeBSD has a -hackers list which is obviously not > for vandals, but the security section of the handbook also refers to > people who break in as "hackers". Is that appropriate? It certainly isn't. I'll change that to "attackers" unless anyone objects, since that's used a lot elsewhere in the security section and in the security(7) man page. "Intruder" is also user a lot, but I think "attacker" sounds more appropriate. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message