Re: Sysmask security challenge: 1 week and +300 arbitrary code assaults, still resisting

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 04/20/05 

Date: 20 Apr 2005 20:33:38 GMT

Ku Karlovsky <nospam@nospam.nospam.not> writes:

>On 20 Apr 2005 13:14:30 GMT, Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM>
>wrote in message <<426655b6$0$150$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>>:

>> >One would expect that you know the difference between hacker and cracker
>> >...
>>
>> One would expect people to know that common usage dictates the
>> meaning of words, and not a fringe group of experts.

>Did you mean a fringe group like the OpenSolaris Community Advisory
>Board?

What, re we all so touchy about losing the hacker/cracker battle
that we show that we run out of arguments by using ad-hominem attacks?

A long time ago I, too, fervently argued for the hacker/cracker
distinction; but at least I'm man enough to admit that this
is a lost cause; and smart enough to understand how words
derive their meaning. If 99.9% of the community thinks
that a hacker is someone who breaks into computers without permission,
then that is good enough for me (and I'm being generous giving
the hacker/cracker distinction support of .1% of the population)

Oh, and I do consider myself one of the "fringe group of experts";
I've just given up on the cracker/hacker distinction.

Casper 

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