Society likes the label 'hacker'. It has been bombarded by media, to the point where most people associate it with destruction and theft of computer services.
Then there's the k3w1 31337 |-|4x0r-d00d13z whose only purpose in life would seem to augment their virtual genitalia through pingflooding and crashing poor lusers' computers using BO and the like. That kind of fscking moronae just love to call themselves "hackers", for it sounds so much 13373r than plain old cracker. It's a dick size thing, much like calling oneself "homicidal maniac" or "jackhammer". Something to do with the bit about "hacker" meaning "one who makes furniture with an axe" - axes are cool, remember? Cream crackers, on the other hand, are not.
And the media follows, like the big herd of blind, deaf, dumb but still bleating sheep they are. (hacker sounds so much better than cracker, and gets you more readers -> more money).
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Then there's the k3w1 31337 |-|4x0r-d00d13z whose only purpose in life would seem to augment their virtual genitalia through pingflooding and crashing poor lusers' computers using BO and the like. That kind of fscking moronae just love to call themselves "hackers", for it sounds so much 13373r than plain old cracker. It's a dick size thing, much like calling oneself "homicidal maniac" or "jackhammer". Something to do with the bit about "hacker" meaning "one who makes furniture with an axe" - axes are cool, remember? Cream crackers, on the other hand, are not.
And the media follows, like the big herd of blind, deaf, dumb but still bleating sheep they are. (hacker sounds so much better than cracker, and gets you more readers -> more money).