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"hacker"/"cracker" are terms only used/understood with nuance in the tech community. For the non-tech community: hacker = person committing computer crimes (b
by umvi 7y ago
"hacker"/"cracker" are terms only used/understood with nuance in the tech community.
For the non-tech community:
hacker = person committing computer crimes (black hat)
cracker = a tasty snack (or, if you are in the American South, a contemptuous term for a white person)
tinkerer = someone who tinkers around with stuff (what tech community traditionally called hacker as in hacker news)
- mikorym 7y agoThe top two are wrong. The concrete definitions are: Hacker: A programmer; someone who embodies the spirit of the programmer's way of thinking Cracker: A programmer that commits crimes by illegally breaking in to systems.