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rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:

> My view is that the Net As We Know It is now a city of about 1 million
> occupants, and the FSF was being a little like the traditionalist who
> likes to leave his car doors unlocked and his front door open for
> visitors to drop by.  Alas, the city is now full of anonymous hackers
> who are like common criminals....

What you really mean is:

	"Alas, the city is now full of common criminals."

Right?  Go back and read Steven Levy's book again and try to remember
that the words "hacker" and "criminal" do not belong in the same
sentence.

Yes, I know that "hacker" is now the commonly accepted (by outsiders
who don't know any better) term for net.criminals, but only because we
let it happen, right?

BTW, on Jeopardy last week, one of the answers was something like:

	"A person who illegally gains access to another person's
	computer."

The question, of course, was "What is a hacker?"  Alex Trebeck(sp?) is
going to receive some nastygrams about this.

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