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That's just wrong :(.

• DanielStraight 15y ago
  If your goal in speaking is to communicate something to the listener, then it's helpful to use terms in ways that will make sense to the listener. How is that wrong?
  • kragen 15y ago
    He's helping himself by disassociating himself from the community that supports him. That's a prisoner's-dilemma defection: if everyone is afraid to acknowledge being a hacker when they're talking to journalists, journalists will only ever learn the criminal definition.
  • Ideka 15y ago
    It's exactly as kragen says. I think he should call himself hacker, and explain why. Altough, of course, it can be a pain having to explain it every time, so it's understandable.