What Is In a Name?
Thursday July 3, 2003
A hacker by any other name will still cause havoc. Hacker purists insist that hacking is a form of benevolent curiosity and that the term should not be associated with cyber-terrorists and cyber-criminals who steal credit cards and deface web sites. There are many names that have been adopted to refer to things other than their original intent and hacker is just one of them.