On 3/13/14 6:22 AM, Sholes, Joshua wrote: > If one came up in this field with a mentor who was old school, or if one > is old school oneself, one tends use the original (as I understand it) > definitions--a "cracker" breaks security or obtains data unlawfully, a > "hacker" is someone who likes ethically playing (in the "joyful > exploration" sense) with complicated systems.
And both terms are so defined in RFC 1392, dates January 1993. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - j...@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
