Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mit-athena!yba From: yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: cracking Message-ID: <164@mit-athena.ARPA> Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 00:54:48 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-athe.164 Posted: Sat Jun 16 00:54:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 02:08:03 EDT References: <685@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 21 >>Whether you like it or not the term "Hacker" is often used to refer to >>juveniles who are in the habit of using other peoples accounts, >>breaking into systems, etc. In fact, it is the term that the >>person who was the subject of my flame used to refer to himself. >>... >>None of the above (taken from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary), refers to >>what *I* do for a living. I am going to hide behind Eastern mysticism: Judy, you have not studied Zen. In Zen what is most highly valued is often most viciously spat upon. Those who understand hacking will understand the use of the term. If the honor is not obvious, what good is the honorific? The fellow who described himself as a hacker could just as easily have proclaimed himself God; why is his claiming to be a hacker more valid? Go for transmission outside of dictionary listings. Just hack. Hack the Zen of no keyboard. What do you do by the way?