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Re: Hackers, Crackers
>Let's cut out this elitist "crackers" crap altogether.
>It's just a little bit too PlaySkool, a little bit too
>"_I'm_ not a third grader! I'm a _fourth grader_!" The people
>who put so much energy into advertising how they're different
>tend not to know what the fuck they're talking about, in
>my experience.
Well, I don't know about this guy, but there's something similar that
occurred to me during the hackers conference. Some of the people on this
list heard me express it badly, and I wanted to clarify.
We always used to distinguish hackers from crackers.
But cracking reveals the cracks in a way that nothing else does.
It makes them real, sometimes laughably or painfully so.
Electronic privacy is currently a joke. It's bad.
You need to know what kinds of attacks you're trying to defend against.
I used to think those arguments were rationalizations.
Now I'm glad there are people who know this stuff, who are actually doing it.
Some of "them" are on what I think of as the good side, and "we" need that
kind of knowledge, if only as an occasional splash of cold water, a spur
(to switch metaphorical, er, horses in mid, um, stream).
-fnerd
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[email protected] (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
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