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You Say "Hacker", the Feds Say "Terrorist"
Richard Forno, 2001-11-21

By lumping hackers in with cyber-terrorists, the government is demonstrating a fundamental inability to understand either group.

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Hackers vs. Terrorist Hackers 2001-11-23
Rich (1 replies)
Hackers vs. Terrorist Hackers 2001-11-26
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In my opinion it seems this is hardly about literality, and more about precedence. If we don't draw clear agreeable lines of what separates child's play and malevolent attacks, in later years, it may be used to push the punishments of "cyber-terrorism" to something even more inconceivable.

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