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Students Learn To Write Viruses
snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers — they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software."
In ordinary English, a hacker is somebody who hacks into a computer system. That's not the way you and I use the word, but we're not most people.
... so, when living in the ordinary world, dealing with ordinary people ... or, say, writing an article for newsweek, you're probably better off communicating in a language that ordinary people understand.
Thanks for preaching to the choir though, maybe someone will find your comment insightful.
You are a solid jerk, aren't you? For a counter-example, you had to read no further than the post I was responding to. I don't suppose you took the trouble.