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Lets not be so quick to forget that the term hacker originally meant... someone messing around with other people's computer systems without their permission bef

• unimpressive 14y ago
  It originally meant a lot of things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29#Overlaps_and_differences[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29#Overlaps_and_... [1]: "The main basic difference between programmer subculture and computer security hackers is their mostly separate historical origin and development. However, the Jargon File reports that considerable overlap existed for the early phreaking at the beginning of the 1970s. An article from MIT's student paper The Tech used the term hacker in this context already in 1963 in its pejorative meaning for someone messing with the phone system.[10] The overlap quickly started to break when people joined in the activity who did it in a less responsible way.[28] This was the case after the publication of an article exposing the activities of Draper and Engressias." - Wikipedia; Tue Nov 6 16:27:58 PST 2012