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From: darkuncle at darkuncle.net (Scott Francis)
Subject: tradecraft and subversion

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:51:05PM +0000, defender242@...mail.com said:
> >
> >On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, crap producer wrote:
> >>You're no blackhat. You're just a programmer out of a few hundreds of 
> >>thousands.
> >
> >Your opinion mostly mirrors that of sockz. See my response to him.
> >
> 
> You cannot just redefine words like that. You faggots already stole term 
> 'hacker' by making it synonym for 'programmer'. Now you want to steal 
> 'blackhat' too?

the term 'hacker' originated before you, or most of the people on this list
(myself included) ever saw a computer. The only redefinition going on was
when the media (and apparently crackers) redefined the term to mean
'malicious attacker'. See the Jargon File for historical references.

Hats, shmats ...
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