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Back in the 90's and early 2000's this is what I thought 'Hacker' and 'Cracker' meant Hacker - A person who circumvents a walled network. Cracker - A person w
by krisgenre 12y ago
Back in the 90's and early 2000's this is what I thought 'Hacker' and 'Cracker' meant
Hacker - A person who circumvents a walled network.
Cracker - A person who circumvents a walled software.
- davb 12y agoBy the late 90s this is exactly how I understood the terms. Even now I don't hear many people in the local tech community (Scotland) refer to hackers as we mean here (unless it's prefixed with something, for example "Python hacker").
- sschueller 12y agoAnd so does everyone else over 30. You can't just take a word to mean something new and petition to have the old meaning 'removed'.