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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