[39769] in Cypherpunks
Re: [NOISE] "hacker" was: first virtual "security"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (NSB's Portable (via RadioMail))
Thu Sep 21 12:22:05 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:05:26 -0700
To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "NSB's Portable (via RadioMail)" <nsb@radiomail.net>
Reply-To: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com> (via RadioMail)
At 2:03 AM 9/21/95 -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>In article <0kMA2EqMc50eMEb4Yx@nsb.fv.com>,
>Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com> wrote:
>>If an SSL-like scheme were in wide use world-wide, the hacker who just
>>made a name for himself by breaking SSL could instead have gone down in
>
>Ugh. That word again. I'm only 22, but I'm old enough to remember
>when there were people called "crackers", and being called a "hacker"
>was a _good_ thing.
Hey, this guy didn't steal anything, and he publicized the hole. He wasn't
a criminal, he was a good guy. That's why I called him a hacker. -- NB
