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From: jpm@bnl.UUCP (John McNamee)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Hackers and others take note
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 11:18:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 11:18:25 1984
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> For those of you who think
> that the media has given hackers a bad name, you're wrong.  Jerks
> like the ones hassling Sandza have done it.

The media has repeated their lies. They call themselves "hackers", yet
they are not. Do reporters always do so little research into what they
are writing about?

> They call themselves
> hackers, and their lack of any sort of moral intelligence reflects
> on everyone using that appellation.

Lets say I am a plagiarist and started calling myself a "writer". How
many reporters who repeat that title?

> I doubt
> that the reason Sandza has come under attack, however, is because
> he used the word `hacker'. 

Of course not. Who ever said that? It is the net people who are
down on hackers that are getting attacked (they attacked us first
by comparing us to crmininals).
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			John McNamee
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			John McNamee
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