[169735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Mar 13 15:25:43 2014
In-Reply-To: <CD22EC0C-52B8-45D6-B9E1-F4CE491C4E69@consultant.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:24:54 -0400
To: James R Cutler <james.cutler@consultant.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:15 PM, James R Cutler
<james.cutler@consultant.com> wrote:
> As of early 1960's - See history of WTBS, Ralph Zaorski, Dick Gruen,
> Alan Kent, and many others - The then current usage of "hacker" was
> simply one who produced a "hack" - 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.
Hi James,
I'm afraid my google-fu doesn't reach back to the 1960's. You don't
happen to have a handy reference do you?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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