Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: cracking Message-ID: <1057@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 11:55:59 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1057 Posted: Thu Jun 14 11:55:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 00:41:23 EDT References: <685@ut-ngp.UUCP> <95@utastro.UUCP> Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 26 >Well, pardon me! But words do change in meaning over the years. Frequently >they take on an entirely new meaning. Besides, "hacker" is not necessarily >equal to "hack". Who out in net-land have heard of definitions (3), (4), >and (5). Probably not too many people (I'm not saying one way or the other >about me, though). Don't be too hard on the use of the word hacker to denote >a programmer. What you are telling me is that you can take a word and change its meaning to be what you want it to be despite its entymology. Bull. It takes a LONG, LONG time before a word can truly be considered free of its history, if it ever can. Computers (and hackers) haven't been around nearly long enough to redefine the term in the way you want to. The negative connotations are there, and will continue to be there (especially since the popular press wants to use it that way, and many more people listen to them than they do to you!) You can't live down the reputation of a word simply by willing it away. I, for one, am proud to be an ex-hacker. chuq -- From the ledge of the seventh cornice: Chuq Von Rospach {amd70,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui (408) 733-2600 x242 Love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Saint Exupery