[plug] (off-topic) Law regarding hacking

[Christian]

Bradley Browne wrote:
> 
> I think that the fight for mind space, with regards to " the correct term is
> crackers, not hackers " phenomenon, has been lost.  I don't even try and tell
> people that a "hacker" is this and a "cracker" is that anymore, people seem to
> want the terms to be mutual.  I know that this posting does not contribute much
> to the list, and I apologise, but I just thought I would get in before anybody
> attempted to correct anyone. (gr?)

I think when people are talking seriously about security they don't use
"hacker" or "cracker".  Having said that, hacker/cracker does slip out
occasionally even from the best intentioned person and when it does I
think it's best to use "cracker" given the alternative (and increasingly
popular!) semantics of "hacker".

Consistent with this, recently mainstream new sites seem to have begun
using "cracker" in place of "hacker" and thus it would be strange if the
Linux/Free Software/Hacker communities did the opposite.

Regards,

Christian.

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