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>'Cracker breaks in', Does any other technical person have issue not conflating "Cracker: Guy who breaks into system" with "slur for white rednecks"? Every ti
by gte910h 16y ago
>'Cracker breaks in',
Does any other technical person have issue not conflating "Cracker: Guy who breaks into system" with "slur for white rednecks"?
Every time I hear it I picture some meth head in his trailer hacking into a bank of middle <insert southern state>.
Technical people need a better term for "guy who breaks into servers" that hasn't been co-opted by popular culture for another purpose
- lurkinggrue 16y agoYeah, I had the same image. I think the hacker/cracker language war as been lost.