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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 94 04:30:27 PST
From: Ham-Digital Mailing List and Newsgroup <ham-digital@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #372
To: Ham-Digital
Ham-Digital Digest Tue, 8 Nov 94 Volume 94 : Issue 372
Today's Topics:
Use of the word "hacker" in Amateur Radio Newsline
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Date: 8 Nov 1994 08:12:47 GMT
From: karn@unix.ka9q.ampr.org (Phil Karn)
Subject: Use of the word "hacker" in Amateur Radio Newsline
In article <1994Nov7.194650.5740@pixar.com>, bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
|> I was disappointed to see that the latest Amateur Radio Newsline used the
|> word "hacker" in a sense that meant "criminal". See newsline #895, article
I think this battle is lost. I try to use alternate terms like
"cracker" or "intruder", but I find myself occasionally using "hacker"
in the pejorative sense. Oh well.
Phil
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