[169740] 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 15:42:36 2014
From: James R Cutler <james.cutler@consultant.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:38:26 -0400
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mar 13, 2014, at 3:24 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Hi James,
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> 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?
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> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
I carry that data in wet storage, interfaced via voice or =
eyes-on-screen/fingers-on-keyboard. I haven=92t been on the MIT campus =
for more than a few minutes since late 1963.
Regarding the Wikipedia entry for =93Hacker=94:
The TMRC/MITAL history ignores the pioneering audio systems work that =
came out of WTBS (pre-sale to Ted). Ralph Zaorski and Barry Blesser =
were the best around at that.
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