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by gte910h 5617 days ago
>'Cracker breaks in',

Does any other technical person have issue not conflating "Cracker: Guy who breaks into system" with "slur for white rednecks"?

Every time I hear it I picture some meth head in his trailer hacking into a bank of middle <insert southern state>.

Technical people need a better term for "guy who breaks into servers" that hasn't been co-opted by popular culture for another purpose

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Yeah, I had the same image.

I think the hacker/cracker language war as been lost.