in reply to Fighting the denigration of hacking
Interestingly enough, the jargon file entry for hacker (according to KDict) contains the following:
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.
I think deprecated is wishful thinking since that appears to be the media's primary definition for the word.
It also points out that hacking doesn't necessarily have to deal with computers.
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