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FBI Crackers

vendredi 16 avril 2021 à 02:00

The FBI cracks servers to delete malware previously installed by crackers.

I think this action is legitimate and useful, but please don't use the word "hacking" to describe what the FBI are doing. That gives us hackers a bad name. Please distinguish between hacking, which is playful cleverness, and cracking, which is breaking security.

If I were an adherent of cancellationism, I'd say that your use of antihackerist language is an aggression against us hackers, doing us psychological harm, and that you're a bad person if you don't stop.