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From: david@RAND-UNIX.ARPA (David Shlapak)
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Subject: Re: Times have changed at Apple Computer ...
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 14:45:06 EDT
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    Re:

	>Ps: Hacking: Learning through unauthorized access

    How 'bout:

	Hacking: Destruction through unlearned access...

    Why all this romanticism about "hacking?"  The "old fashioned"
    hacker (the one who didn't try to f**k up other people's TRW files
    or break into Bank of America's computers, but merely wanted to figure
    out what made a machine tick and what it could be made to do) were
    typically (although by all means not exclusively) moderately immature,
    single-minded, boring individuals (in other words, yes folks, "nerds");
    "new-type" hackers are just plain felons. I don't understand what's wrong
    with a school trying to protect its investments.

    Besides, if nobody tried to keep the kids out of the guts of the
    computer, they wouldn't be "hackers" by your definition, would they?

    Cheers!

				    --- das