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Subject: Re: Managing Engineers
From: Katie Kearns <kkearns -at- cisco -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:39:00 -0800


Actually, hacker would work okay in many security firm contexts. They may not damage anything, but they could find information that the company doesn't want anyone else to know.

Hacking (in this sense) is the search for information, whether the holder of the information wants to tell you or not. Actually, preferably if the holder of the information doesn't want to tell you.

And I seriously doubt that people think of Wargames or Sneakers when they hear "hacker". Both of those would probably be acceptable to your average hacker. ;)

-Katie


At 10:11 AM 11/22/00 -0800, you wrote:


Funny you would mention this, Bruce. My company has a permanent contract to do
all tech and user docs for a network security firm (Network ICE). We faced
this exact issue early in the documentation cycle. The Network ICE CTO, a
brilliant genius type, was insistent to me that I not use the term "hacker" in
a derogatory way. This spawned a debate between us. My contention was that the
average joe cannot or does not discern this difference. When people hear
"hacker" they think of Wargames or Sneakers. They don't think of cute, cuddly
nerds tinkering with computers. The CTO felt this was an unfair stereotype of
people who just like to figure out complex puzzles.

Andrew Plato



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