Comment on Change.org Petition: Tell media not to use 'Hacker' when they mean 'Cracker'Comments−davidgerard12y"cracker" was invented as a derogatory neologism to attack one group of people that called themselves "hackers" by another group of people that called themselves "hackers".That ship sailed approximately with the first documented use of the word "hacker": http://imranontech.com/2008/04/01/the-origin-of-hacker/This petition is bad and its creator should feel bad.
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"cracker" was invented as a derogatory neologism to attack one group of people that called themselves "hackers" by another group of people that called themselves "hackers".
That ship sailed approximately with the first documented use of the word "hacker": http://imranontech.com/2008/04/01/the-origin-of-hacker/
This petition is bad and its creator should feel bad.