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Am I the only one who was struck by the unqualified use, in a general-audience publication, of 'hacker' to mean 'programmer' rather than 'one who breaks into ot
by gabrielroth 16y ago
Am I the only one who was struck by the unqualified use, in a general-audience publication, of 'hacker' to mean 'programmer' rather than 'one who breaks into other people's computers over a network'?
- zwetan 16y agoa "hacker" is closer to a programmer that think "out of the box" than to a "cracker" that "breaks into other people computers" the media has given this defintion to the word "hacker" and I always rejected it!
- whimsy 16y agoYes, but it's rare seeing it used in the media as we use it outside the media.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoThat was his point. The MSM generally uses your cracker definition for hacker, but here's an article actually using your first definition. Signs and wonders...