On 3/13/14, 7:35 PM, "Larry Sheldon" <larryshel...@cox.net> wrote:
>Not sure I can agree with that. I have been in this game for a very >long time, but for most of it in places where the world's population >cleaved neatly into two parts: "Authorized Users" who could be >identified by the facts that they had ID cards, Badges, and knew the >door code; and "trespassers" who were all others. > >Then you new kids came along and (pointlessly, in my opinion) divided >the later group into the two described above. See, the way *I* learned it was that part of the creed of the "hacker" involved "why would I want to play with your systems, mine are much cooler."; that is, by definition a "hacker" is in the first group. --Josh