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hacker != cracker (Re: Swartz, Weev & radical libertarian lexicon)
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:30 PM, demonfighter6 . <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Adam Back <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Seems like the original hackers lost that etymology battle however long
>> ago.
>
> Yes, annoying though that may be to those of us who were called hackers
> before that became a bad thing. But we're outnumbered thousands-to-one, and
> we're just not going to win that language war.
use the term "independent security researcher",
your legal counsel will thank you!