A bad name

Men (and women) like this give hackers a bad name. As long as the press keeps on using the ‘wrong’ word for these criminals, which should be called ‘crackers’, the world will not understand the joy and pride of real hackers.

 

Of course, when I was a lot younger it were movies like WarGames, Sneakers, Hackers and even Weird Science that motivated me a lot. Not to get into criminal activities but to ‘understand’ and ‘control’ the machine (I think it’s a ‘power thing’) I think I’ll never get that feeling back of secretly peek-ing and poke-ing the night away in the flickering light of a CRT tube.

 

Happy hacking!