Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 07:54:26 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hacker or cracker? (WAS: http://users.uk.freebsd.org/~juha/) Message-ID: <3C84CE12.5FFBFF0C@centtech.com> References: <000c01c1c322$df0f22a0$0101a8c0@noc2> <20020304202541.U91555-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020305015104.GA40292@core.usrlib.org> <20020305114625.GA11426@raggedclown.net> <20020305144726.B89475@energyhq.homeip.net>
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Heh, yea, it seems to me that crackers were those people that pirated softare and made cracks, hence crackers. Hackers were the people that, well, HACKed.. I see people referring to hackers as crackers and crackers as hackers.. I'm not sure when the confusion started, but about 10-15 years ago, there wasn't much media hype about this stuff.. Eric (If a hacker is a cracker's attacker, and the attacker's hacked cracker is not a hacker, then is a cracker the hacker's attacker?) Miguel Mendez wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:46:25PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Moving this to chat: > > > What always bugs me is people who should know better referring to "crackers", > > as "hackers" :) > > Troll, but I'll bite :-) > > Cracker: salted cookie. > Hacker: what you meant as hacker. > > Cracker is nothing, just a stupid term made up by journalists and > clueless people like Suckomu Shimomura. ;-P > > And yes, I'll shut up now. > > Cheers, > -- > Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net > GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt > EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk > FreeBSD - The power to serve! > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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