[169805] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Sun Mar 16 23:51:52 2014
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:51:24 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CF4727CB.F3AE%Joshua_Sholes@cable.comcast.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/13/14 6:22 AM, Sholes, Joshua wrote:
> If one came up in this field with a mentor who was old school, or if one
> is old school oneself, one tends use the original (as I understand it)
> definitions--a "cracker" breaks security or obtains data unlawfully, a
> "hacker" is someone who likes ethically playing (in the "joyful
> exploration" sense) with complicated systems.
And both terms are so defined in RFC 1392, dates January 1993.
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