Hackers, Crackers
FutureNerd Steve Witham
fnerd at smds.com
Tue Nov 17 08:16:02 PST 1992
>Let's cut out this elitist "crackers" crap altogether.
Well, I don't know about this guy, but there's something similar that
occurred to me during the hackers conference. Some of the people on this
list heard me express it badly, and I wanted to clarify.
We always used to distinguish hackers from crackers.
But cracking reveals the cracks in a way that nothing else does.
It makes them real, sometimes laughably or painfully so.
Electronic privacy is currently a joke. It's bad.
You need to know what kinds of attacks you're trying to defend against.
I used to think those arguments were rationalizations.
Now I'm glad there are people who know this stuff, who are actually doing it.
Some of "them" are on what I think of as the good side, and "we" need that
kind of knowledge, if only as an occasional splash of cold water, a spur
(to switch metaphorical, er, horses in mid, um, stream).
-fnerd
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fnerd at smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
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