SELinux last straw

Alan M. Evans fedoralist at alanevans.org
Wed Oct 17 18:57:33 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 21:02 +0530, das wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:03 -0400, Jacques B. wrote:
> > If you heed some of the warnings re-echoed in this thread about that
> > hacking incident then you'll wipe your system and re-install. 
> 
> Is it not tragic if this get called as a 'hacking', not 'cracking' on a
> serious Linux mailing list?

Not really. The term "hacking" has been used for what geeks call
"cracking" for a very long time. I recall hearing it used that way when
I was in high school over twenty years ago.

Language evolves. Live with it.





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