From: Carlo Wood (carlo@alinoe.com)
To: jericho@attrition.org
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:36:16 +0100
Subject: About hackers

About http://www.attrition.org/gallery/cartoons/hacker/

You should learn what a 'hacker' is.  The way you're
using this word is highly annoying.

You can correct this by s/hacker/cybercriminal/,
thanks in advance.

From: security curmudgeon (jericho@attrition.org)
To: Carlo Wood (carlo@alinoe.com)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:54:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: About hackers

You should learn who you mail. Your mail is highly annoying and shows you
know next to dick, and are an idealist gimp.

Instead of writing out a custom reply, lemme quote what I wrote some other
dork that had the same crap to spew:

We actually refer to it as 'defacing' more than anything else, and were
one of the first sites to do so. That gives it a further distinction
between 'hacking' and 'cracking'. The terms hacking and cracking are so
convoluted and mixed up, it is impossible to clearly use one or the other
in any setting and have it universally accepted. If you are going to take
up this battle, why not try to get everyone to accept the word 'nigger'
one way or the other, since it too has different meanings depending on who
you ask. 

I too was once deluded like you. I thought that if I protested enough,
people would listen. But then I realized that mainstream media had been
using the term 'hack[er|ing]' in various contexts for a long time, as far
back as 1982 or before. The notion that you or anyone else can change the
masses and get them to use 'crack' over 'hack' is absurd. 

From: Carlo Wood (carlo@alinoe.com)
To: security curmudgeon (jericho@attrition.org)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:08:51 +0100
Subject: Re: About hackers

: You should learn who you mail. Your mail is highly annoying and shows you
: know next to dick, and are an idealist gimp.

You wasted mailing me back. 1) I never expected you to make
the change anyway, 2) I stopped reading your reply after
the above flame.

Have a nice day,

From: security curmudgeon (jericho@attrition.org)
To: Carlo Wood (carlo@alinoe.com)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:16:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: About hackers

You never expected me to change.. so why mail? To wave your dick around
and show your ignorance?

Slick.

Everyone please feel free to mail this gimp and tell him how to change insipid things about his life or web page.


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