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It seems like you're always hearing in the news about hackers who are getting put in jail for "hacking" into websites and stealing vital information. What the public doesn't know is, it's not hackers who are breaking into those sites, it's crackers; a totally different thing! Crackers are the one's who are cracking into websites, crashing networks, infecting online users with virii and simply causing mayhem! But the media has put a sterotype all over hacker name claiming that they're the one's to blame for all the damage done! What they dont know is, hackers are the one's who made the Internet and the World Wide Web! Hackers are the one's who are testing security, making firewalls, anti-virus programs and other security related programs. But with the sterotyping that the media has put all over the hacker name companies are shutting down hacking related sites, getting people fired from their jobs because they're suspected of being a hacker and simply giving hackers a bad name. If only the media and the public could see the truth behind all this, they would truly know that hackers are the people trying to protect online users, such as yourself, from the evil grasps of crackers! But until the media sees that they're wrong...hackers may never get the praise that they so rightfully deserve.
[editor's note, by Peter Johnson] Our rejection letter is enclosed. |
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From: shoeboy <shoeboy@adequacy.org>
Dear shadowfox, We at Adequacy.org were offended by your recent submission entitled "Hackers; Victims of media stereotype." While we do not deny that many web site defacements and information thefts are the work of Caucasians, we find your unfounded assertion that all such attacks are performed by whites to be extremely distasteful. This was only compounded by your use of the ethnic slur "cracker." Please take your hatred of persons of European extraction elsewhere. We will not be publishing racist statements. Yours,
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