--- "D. Hageman" [email protected] wrote:
On another side note - If a person calls themselves a hacker - they aren't a hacker. It is like a person calling themselves sexy or the best thing out there. It is a term that has to be given to you by another. I just put in this side note as I have had two people call themselves that in the past week in conversation with me. Hubris. Yuck.
I disagree with this comment. While it's possible that anyone who calls themselves a hacker is not necessarily a hacker, it does not preclude a real hacker from calling oneself one. Hacking is the art of taking things apart (and putting them back together) to figure out how things work. That's all it means, there is no elite person that confers hacking status on someone. Hacking is an old term that never gained widespread public knowledge until relatively recently. I have been hacking cars, radios, computers, software, and all manner of electromechanical devices (not necessarily in that order) since I was 7 (that's before Woodstock '69). I take exception to your attempt to promote yourself as the giver of Hackdom.
JMHO, Bona-fide Qualified Certified Hacker #6986l334 Brian Densmore
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