Article View: aus.org.acs
Article #201Re: the myth of the teenage hacker
From: Darren Walsh
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:00
9 lines
1101 bytes
1101 bytes
> >I didn't actually say that knowing something about the CMOS makes one >a hacker. And my 5% figure was just arbitrary -- I'm sure the fraction >of hackers in the world is well under 1%! > Well here is a cool question..... what is the definition of a hacker, what must they know, have done, in order to be one, and how many hackers out there will come out and say, hey, Im a hacker :)
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<62m72q$slm$1@newsource.ihug.co.nz>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<5uuk48$n2a$3@gte2.gte.net> <34478d4e.6105299@news.ozemail.com.au> <622ekj$hm5$1@nonsense.anatomy.usyd.edu.au> <62f0am$oh$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> <62f39l$9lr$1@nonsense.anatomy.usyd.edu.au>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d9f,40930ada081ced3f X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d9f,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,3ffaea195c61b429 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: "Darren Walsh" <nitehawk@ihug.co.nz> Subject: Re: the myth of the teenage hacker Date: 1997/10/23 Message-ID: <62m72q$slm$1@newsource.ihug.co.nz> X-Deja-AN: 282607505 References: <5uuk48$n2a$3@gte2.gte.net> <34478d4e.6105299@news.ozemail.com.au> <622ekj$hm5$1@nonsense.anatomy.usyd.edu.au> <62f0am$oh$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> <62f39l$9lr$1@nonsense.anatomy.usyd.edu.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2002.0 Organization: 40 Pasadena Cres Newsgroups: aus.org.acs,aus.computers