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Comment on Change.org Petition: Tell media not to use 'Hacker' when they mean 'Cracker'

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We'd have more luck just inventing and adopting a new word to replace hacker, any suggestions?

I think we already have words for these people. Criminal and suspect cover the general case. To get more specific we have vandal, thief, industrial spy, stalker, fraudster, and so on. I guess there are some newish crimes - virus wrangler and DDoS participant? They're so different it's hard to make an umbrella term for them.

Craftsman or Artisan strike me as a good place to start.

oh yes venerated software 'craftsmen' because we don't have enough ego as programmers.

In some countries, e.g. Canada, you can get a serious Software Engineering degree that's right up there with mechanical engineering etc. In fact, you're not allowed to call yourself a software engineer without that degree.

I always saw hacker as a computer security term (so did popular culture) and not a term for tinkering/making.

This community is using the wrong term not the media.

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