"Spammers have hackers infest thousands of PCs with worms, and use those to spew forth their vendors' get rich quick schemes. "
You sir, are an arrogant pig. The term hacker has nothing to do with the sort. This is a media development designed to destroy the good image of what a hacker really is. Perhaps if you looked back you would note that a hacker is someone deeply involved in technology, or any discipline for that matter. So you yourself are a hacker (except not in the sense of what the media try's to portray it to be).
SO stop watching popular press, and then maybe you wouldn't demonize innocent computer geeks who have nothing to do with spam.
Thomas
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"Spammers have hackers infest thousands of PCs with worms, and use those to spew forth their vendors' get rich quick schemes. " You sir, are an arrogant pig. The term hacker has nothing to do with the sort. This is a media development designed to destroy the good image of what a hacker really is. Perhaps if you looked back you would note that a hacker is someone deeply involved in technology, or any discipline for that matter. So you yourself are a hacker (except not in the sense of what the media try's to portray it to be). SO stop watching popular press, and then maybe you wouldn't demonize innocent computer geeks who have nothing to do with spam. Thomas