A problem is that "hacker" is a good, short word. Descriptive competing phrases like "cyber criminal" are clumsy by comparison, and "cracker" is just equally g

A problem is that "hacker" is a good, short word. Descriptive competing phrases like "cyber criminal" are clumsy by comparison, and "cracker" is just equally good and short. At least the French, by refusing to use English words, have found a much more interesting phrase for it: pirate informatique http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/medical_general/1173980-hacker.html http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/medical_general/...