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You are confused as many people grow up and enter this field. The original term for the bad guys was "crackers" and all crackers are hackers but not all hackers
by icantthinkofone 13y ago
You are confused as many people grow up and enter this field. The original term for the bad guys was "crackers" and all crackers are hackers but not all hackers are crackers.
The media doesn't understand that and now all the young people growing up have the term 'hacker' all confused and messed up and ruined for the rest of us.
- krapp 13y agoThe media communicates in the language that its audience understands. It isn't their job to enforce linguistic referential integrity, and "crackers" carries some negative connotations, at least in the US.
- roel_v 13y agoPray tell, when was this mythical era when a sizable group of people actually made this distinction and used them as two separate concepts? Warning: this is a trick question, I'm almost old, so I have actual first-hand recollection of these days of yore you seem to be lamenting.
- icantthinkofone 13y agoI'm probably older than you but, based on your question, far more experienced in the field.