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Old 07-26-2019, 08:51 PM   #51
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True hackers have changed. When I got into programming in the late 1960s a hacker was the programmer in the shop that the other programmers went to when they couldn't figure out how to solve a problem. He was the guy who could hack together a solution to just about anything. Not every shop had a hacker but the ones who did had an edge.

When people began looking for ways to break into computers or corrupt computers and the press got wind of it they mistakenly called these guys hackers. Probably because they misunderstood something in an interview. The name stuck. But real hackers are really just very good programmers, the press be damned.

It's probably also worth noting that viruses began in unix, which is what both BSD and Linux eventually grew out of.

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