[platz]

Kevin Mitnick destroyed any faith I had in what being a hacker was about.

[wbsun]

I have given up educating people I met in daily life who misunderstand "hacker" and "cracker", but now I feel sad even on HN and with ESR's article [1] that people here still misunderstand these two.

Hope most HN readers are not coming here looking for new system breaches or vulnerabilities.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is

[aortega]

He's a corporate man now, but in his youth he was legit.

[platz]

I felt his story was spun in a way that accredited far more moral weight than I learned was actually warranted