Re: the myth of the teenage hacker

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From: Danny Yee
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:00

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Sam Knight  <sknight@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>It is a poor state of affairs when knowing a small amount about the
>hardware of the most ubiquitous computer architecture qualifies you
>has a 'hacker'. Followups trimmed  since I fail to
>see what this has to do with a.cen or a.o.efa

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%!

Danny              http://www.anatomy.su.oz.au/danny/

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From: danny@nonsense.anatomy.usyd.edu.au (Danny Yee)
Subject: Re: the myth of the teenage hacker
Date: 1997/10/20
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