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Stimpy · April 16th 05, 06:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
Nick Evans wrote:
Surely one cracks into networks, and a programmer hacks away at code?

That was the original definition but the press (for some reason)
started using the term hacker instead of cracker and then 5 years ago
the newspaper definition became what was used in GCSE exams. So: No,
not anymore

Read 'Hackers' by Stephen Levy (written in 1984) for the story of the
'hacking era'