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* Wishes from The Author
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* The author wishes many people to use a word `Hacker' and a `Cracker'
* correctly. This is just a WISH, not obligation, of course.
*
* The thought is based on
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* RFC (Request For Comments) 1983 "Internet Users' Glossary",
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* from which the sections about Hacker and Cracker are quoted below.
*
* cracker
* A cracker is an individual who attempts to access computer systems
* without authorization. These individuals are often malicious, as
* opposed to hackers, and have many means at their disposal for
* breaking into a system. See also: hacker, Computer Emergency
* Response Team, Trojan Horse, virus, worm.
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* hacker
* A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the
* internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in
* particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context,
* where "cracker" would be the correct term. See also: cracker.
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