Crackers
Dry biscuits, Christmas fixtures and people who enter computers across a network covertly. The last definition is not also a definition of the meaning of the word “hacker”. No dispute. Simple facts. Nothing to see here.
So I was saddened to see that the cancer that plagues Wikipedia, specifically the insistence of ignorant people with too much time on their hands to meddle with information posted by professionals and other specialists in their areas, had spread to this article:
I suppose I should just be glad that there’s no suggesting that passwords consist entirely of three letter words and that computer pros all wear inline skates constantly. As if I’d get to fool around in a swimming pool with Angelina just ’cause I can bypass a Windows login…
