[169733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R Cutler)
Thu Mar 13 15:15:48 2014
From: James R Cutler <james.cutler@consultant.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGWrYh2OJRei1GN9w05kNAAj3uKNjjYRT+S_ocOZdbfsvw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:15:13 -0400
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:46 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:45 AM, James R Cutler
> <james.cutler@consultant.com> wrote:
>> And Bill documents yet another redefinition. Prior to that time, at =
MIT a "hacker" produced a novel variation of technology using it in ways =
not previously envisioned but not necessarily unlawful.
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>> Mating two different generations of telephone keysets or reducing a =
complex rack mount filter to a single small circuit board with an FET or =
two are just a couple of examples. One was just a "hack", the other an =
"elegant hack". We just called
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> Hi James,
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, but by the time "hacker" emerged as a word
> distinct from "hack" it already carried implications of mischief and
> disregard for the rules in addition to the original implication of
> creatively solving a technical challenge. Is that mistaken?
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> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
Bill,
Mistaken? Yes.
As of early 1960=92s - See history of WTBS, Ralph Zaorski, Dick Gruen, =
Alan Kent, and many others - The then current usage of =93hacker=94 was =
simply one who produced a =93hack=94 - an unusual or unexpected design =
or configuration or action which either did the same old thing done more =
simply/elegantly or which did something new or unexpected altogether. =
Putting an Western Electric power plant on an Automatic Electric =
step-by-step for the East Campus telephone switch was one of my =93hacks=94=
.
James R. Cutler - james.cutler@consultant.com
PGP keys at http://pgp.mit.edu
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