[ILUG] Coloured hats.

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Fri Apr 23 15:11:55 IST 2004


On 23 Apr 2004, at 14:56, Paul Jakma wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Colm Buckley wrote:
>
>> Black hat = malicious hacker.  Someone who breaks into a system to 
>> cause
>> damage or for personal gain.
>
> hackers dont break into systems. crackers do.

Only according to ESR.  I think that particular linguistic battle has 
been well and truly lost.

	Colm

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