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Re: [NOISE] "hacker" was: first virtual "security"
At 2:03 AM 9/21/95 -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>Nathaniel Borenstein <[email protected]> wrote:
>>If an SSL-like scheme were in wide use world-wide, the hacker who just
>>made a name for himself by breaking SSL could instead have gone down in
>
>Ugh. That word again. I'm only 22, but I'm old enough to remember
>when there were people called "crackers", and being called a "hacker"
>was a _good_ thing.
Hey, this guy didn't steal anything, and he publicized the hole. He wasn't
a criminal, he was a good guy. That's why I called him a hacker. -- NB