He'll carefully explain that the teen cyber-nuisances are crackers and not hackers. He still fondly remembers the days when a hacker was anyone who was obsessed with the innards of their computer. Of course, one of Greg's pet peeves is the way the word 'hacker' has been hijacked by computer challenged journalists to be synonymous with teenaged cyber-criminals with too much time and too little common sense. Greg's been playing around with personal computers for more than twenty years, and proudly calls himself a hacker. It's been a while since I wrote here about my friend, Greg, the hacker. This article first appeared in the December 1999issue of the LouisvilleComputer News.
