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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tic.com!erikb
- From: erikb@tic.com (Chris Goggins)
- Subject: Re: Re- Legion of Doom
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.181008.11002@tic.com>
- Organization: Texas Internet Consulting
- References: <1992Aug26.112325.18938@nuchat.sccsi.com> <1992Aug26.112755.19024@nuchat.sccsi.com> <1992Aug27.050429.5362@tic.com> <MTPIYTI@taronga.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:10:08 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- Peter:
-
- You can call yourself whatever you want. I call myself a hacker. You
- may or may not think that "I" should have the right, but you don't
- know anything about me or what I do other than my known association
- with LOD. For you, that association alone seems to bristle the hairs
- on your neck. Most people don't realize that quite a number
- of people from that group have accomplished a lot. Many are working
- on PhD's, one was on the design team that wrote UNIX for amiga,
- others have ended up working for software design houses and telcos.
-
- I personally have a somewhat menial job at a very large computer
- company, and am trying to find out whose apple to polish so I can
- get into the UNIX support & development group.
-
- I will always reserve the right to call myself a hacker since everything
- I know I've taught myself. That is what the word means to me, and I will never
- let someone's else interpretation of what that means hinder my
- self-definition. I can understand your and others of your
- genre zeal to distance yourself from the actions of those who use
- their skills to make a quick buck or to harass others. So do
- most from my background. Anyone who breaks into a computer system
- isn't necessarily a hacker. It's what they do onec inside that
- makes that decision.
-
- You should keep on hacking away at your system and at your source code
- constantly trying to make things more efficient. If you call yourself
- a hacker and someone says "Gee, you break into other people's computers?"
- Just say, "Of course not" and dismiss that person as clueless.
-
- (I hope that this doesn't start a long thread of hacker v. cracker v. phreak
- v. criminal etc..)
-
- ->ME
-