[169806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Mon Mar 17 00:33:07 2014
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:32:42 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5326713C.2060606@west.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/16/2014 08:51 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> 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.
... but that's only informational. :)
