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From: yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: cracking
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Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 00:54:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 16 00:54:48 1984
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>>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?