Comment on Change.org Petition: Tell media not to use 'Hacker' when they mean 'Cracker'Comments−krisgenre12yBack in the 90's and early 2000's this is what I thought 'Hacker' and 'Cracker' meantHacker - A person who circumvents a walled network.Cracker - A person who circumvents a walled software.−davb12yBy the late 90s this is exactly how I understood the terms.Even now I don't hear many people in the local tech community (Scotland) refer to hackers as we mean here (unless it's prefixed with something, for example "Python hacker").−sschueller12yAnd so does everyone else over 30. You can't just take a word to mean something new and petition to have the old meaning 'removed'.
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Back in the 90's and early 2000's this is what I thought 'Hacker' and 'Cracker' meant
Hacker - A person who circumvents a walled network.
Cracker - A person who circumvents a walled software.
By the late 90s this is exactly how I understood the terms.
Even now I don't hear many people in the local tech community (Scotland) refer to hackers as we mean here (unless it's prefixed with something, for example "Python hacker").
And so does everyone else over 30. You can't just take a word to mean something new and petition to have the old meaning 'removed'.