[lug] I'm amazed

[Chip Atkinson]

It's amazing to me in that it's recognizing the more "techno" version of
hacking rather than the mass-media version of hacker, which is used
interchangably with "cracker".  It sounds like a voice of reason in the
typical storm of hysteria.

Chip

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Davide Del Vento wrote:

> Why amazed? Well, I'm not native speaker but I also interpreted
> hacking that way, particularly with "fix" having the same meaning as
> in "quick fix" idiom, so not necessarily "best practice fix".
> 
> http://www.wordreference.com/definition/hack
> 
> 3 	hack, hack on
>  		fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good
> at hacking but I'll give it my best"
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:49, Kenneth D. Weinert
> <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:
> > I'm taking some Security Awareness training module here at work which
> > actually contains the following statement:
> >
> >
> > The term hacking should not be synonymous with illegal or immoral
> > activities. To hack a system is simply to modify it (legally or illegally.)
> >
> > --
> > Ken
> >
> >
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