Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA From: ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: --- worms --- Message-ID: <915@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 08:43:21 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.915 Posted: Fri Aug 23 08:43:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 03:10:15 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 24 Richard et al, *** FLAME ON *** You know, I'm getting bloody tired of the misuse and abuse of the term "hacker". I worked hard to learn enough to hopefully be considered a member of those illustrious ranks, and do NOT like being associated with vandals, delinquents, criminal elements, and the like. The journalists are mainly responsible for the recent misuse, and delight in calling any computer-related crime or incident the work of "hackers". Perhaps a few thousand irate letters to editors, etc., would change their misguided vocabulary. I would suggest the use of the word "crasher" (as was recently used in a book, "The Inner Circle", so I was told) to apply to the destructive or criminal elements. Hacker should remain a descriptive term of those who love computers and programming for their own sake. *** Flame Off *** David Kirschbaum Toad Hall ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID