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Thank you for finally posting the definition of HACKER.

I was just about to do that when I saw your post. I agree with many of the
posts in here. Hacker never was meant in a negative way.

As you notic in the definitions provided below, effort is made to redirect
the negative aspects to another term. Hence, hacker is not, and should not
be considered derogatory.

I think that all media writers who use hacker in a negative fashion or with
implications of negativity whould learn how to use a dictionary. They are
just too damn lazy to find out what the hell they are talking about. In the
end, the common public is swayed into believing the uneducated media-groups.

JMHO
Buzz


Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <rag...@lightside.ddns.org> wrote in message
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>Stig-Lennart S�rensen <sti...@stud.isv.uit.no> wrote:
>>You tired of seeing hackers being criminalized by the state? This is your
>>chance to tell your story to the world about hackers, the true story
>>unaltered by media or goverment.
>
>I'm tired of patents.  Write about the evilness of patents, and how someone
>(IBM) managed to patent the use of xors to draw mouse pointers.  Write
about
>something important.
>
>Or you could also write on how media over and over misuses the word hacker.
>
>   :hacker: n.  [originally, someone who makes furniture with an
>   axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable
>   systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most
>   users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.  2. One who
>   programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys
>   programming rather than just theorizing about programming.  3. A
>   person capable of appreciating {hack value}.  4. A person who is
>   good at programming quickly.  5. An expert at a particular program,
>   or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in a `Unix
>   hacker'.  (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who
>   fit them congregate.)  6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind.  One
>   might be an astronomy hacker, for example.  7. One who enjoys the
>   intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing
>   limitations.  8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to
>   discover sensitive information by poking around.  Hence `password
>   hacker', `network hacker'.  The correct term for this sense is
>   {cracker}.
>
>And of course
>
>   :cracker: n.  One who breaks security on a system.  Coined    ca.
>   1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of    {hacker}
>   (q.v., sense 8).  An earlier attempt to establish    `worm' in this
>
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