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From: edtking@uw-june (Ewan David Tempero)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: What "hacker" really means
Message-ID: <2061@uw-june>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 15:49:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 15:49:14 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:31:30 EST
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
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Seen in tuesdays Wall Street Journal, an advertisement for Lockheed
equipment that included the sentence

"Today's skillful computer thieves ( or "hackers") can rob your computer
of its most confidential files"

Regardless of what the computing world thinks a hacker is, this how the
*real* world sees them (us?....me:-)

			Ewan Tempero
			...!uw-beaver!uw-june!edtking
			edtking@washington