[ubuntu-uk] A small Bet, because Im fed up with not knowing.

Daniel Taylor ubuntu at danielt.com
Mon Oct 9 18:22:53 BST 2006


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(Just to take this slightly off-topic as the BBC ramps up its
anti-hacker story)


The another issue that the BBC constantly gets wrong (and the rest of
the media) is this whole 'hacker' business, it annoys me that fraudsters
can be around for centuries, from alchemists to money launderers yet the
moment they evolve to the use of computers they automatic become HACKERS!

And this is not even about the difference between hackers (see ESR[1])
and hackers (see 'the hacker manifesto'[2]) as I believe both sides are
exactly the same. This is about the difference between hackers and those
who use hacker methods to steal from people and do things that are not
for the common good. Something which both types of hackers disagree with.

I think the media has been confused by two groups that are on the same
side complaining about the same thing in different directions... for
example;

Hackers [1] tell the media that hackers are those who have "technical
adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits"
(that's a quote from ESR). and hackers[2] saying ... well ... exactly
the same, OK hackers[2] bend the occasional law in their problem solving
and exploration, however usually these are laws that should have never
existed in the first place... like the DMCA.

I think its about time we stop this infighting, of two fractions that
are of the same heritage and instead focus not on getting the word
hacker back from each other but on getting it back from the media who is
tarring us all with the fraudster brush each and every time they do a story.

I'm proud to be a hacker[1][2], I hope you lot are too.

</rant>

- - Daniel

[1] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
[2] http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
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