Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!bnl!jpm From: jpm@bnl.UUCP (John McNamee) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Hackers and others take note Message-ID: <824@bnl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 11:18:25 EST Article-I.D.: bnl.824 Posted: Wed Dec 12 11:18:25 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:06:23 EST References: <2612@dartvax.UUCP> <519@sdcsvax.UUCP> Distribution: na Lines: 32 > 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). -- John McNamee ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!jpm jpm@Bnl.Arpa -- John McNamee ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!jpm jpm@Bnl.Arpa