Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Ziga Dolhar <ziga.dolhar@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello Cristoph!

On Friday 01 June 2001 13:24, Peer-Christoph Mettelem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> don't get me wrong, but in my opinion you wrote something wrong:
> A Hacker doesn't sell illegal copies of software. I think that
> it's a pity that so many people mix up the meaning of hacker and
> cracker. In short: hackers are the good ones, crackers are the
> bad ones. So, if you want to gete illegal software (warez) you
> goto a cracker. If it'S something about security then you got to
> a hacker. I really hate, that even in tv crackers were called
> hackers.
> There are much more infos about that on the web.

Indeed. It really made me mad watching "Who wants to be a millionaire" that 
day they asked the contestant the following question:

"How do we call people, breaking into computers and causing damage". Maybe 
this isn't the best translation but ok, You got the point ;-). Well, here 
goes the answers:

a) Broker
b) Joker
c) Hacker
d) Darker.

Duh. I wish the contestand called me up for some help :-)