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Attacks on news sites - new names for hackers
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 05:29 PM EST
Checkers - people inside the Great Firewall who are permitted by their
authorities to infiltrate systems outside the GFW

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Attacks on news sites - new names for hackers
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 05:29 PM EST
Unfortunately, the term "hacker" has long since been (erroneously)
associated with what we who know better call "crackers". How can we
correct this misconception in the public's and press's eyes?

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more new names
Authored by: Anonomous on Tuesday, February 05 2013 @ 06:46 PM EST
JACKERS - people who take over your computer with malicious software
FLACKERS - people who write press releases about software
BLACKERS - people who try to destroy your reputation on the web
BACKERS - people who gave you money but haven't taken you over yet
KNACKERS - people who break up failing tech companies and sell the pieces
FACTORS - people who buy and sell ad space and broker hits
RACKERS - people who provide coloc services
SNACKERS - people who eat new development platforms for breakfast
SPACKLERS - people who patch up the cracks in the internet
STACKERS - people who make incompatible systems compatible
CLACKERS - people who use TCP/IP over manual Morse protocol
PACKERS - people who can get Linux to run on a digital camera
KAKKERS - very old people who invented software in the first place
QUACKERS - people who will flock to your site if you have bread
SLACKERS - people who surf when they should be working
SACKERS - bosses who fire SLACKERS
TACKERS - people who start an unrelated thread in the comments
SMACKERS - people who can kill a discussion in the comments
STREAKERS - people who run naked through the comments
LACKERS - people who do not have Linux
SHACKERS - people who cohabitate with software developers
TRACKERS - people who know who you are and what you are doing right now

-Wang-Lo.

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