On Sun, 08 Dec 2002 20:43:27 +0100, you wrote: > >Well Steve, > >The crackers as you call them are calling themselves hackers and the >last 8 years they have been identified as hackers.
Indeed. I wonder if this clear line that Steve paints is not always observed by all hackers, so that they *never* break in to others' systems? The hacker with whom I spoke had, at one time, been one of the world's more notorious crackers. Ultimately many of his acquaintances and friends went to prison. But when I spoke to him he was more or less a "hacker", as he had tended to have less disrespect for systems and had ended up a more productive person. There may be "good" hackers who never break in to anyone else's system or what some would *call* themselves "good" hackers (who might break in but do no mischief beyond that) and "bad" hackers (who might do any amount of mischief and who should be called crackers but are often mixed with hackers by the press). I understand that the term itself (hacking) originally had zero negative connotation, but I wonder if the line is always observed as meticulously as the "good" hackers observe it, and whether all the supposedly "good" hackers "never" break in to others' systems. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
