Pre-Morris Worm:
A programmer who uses low-level features of a computer language or protocol (a hack) to produce results which canonical use can not.
Post-Morris Worm:
A criminal who steals computing resources and data through unauthorized access.
A programmer who uses low-level features of a computer language or protocol (a hack) to produce results which canonical use can not.
Post-Morris Worm:
A criminal who steals computing resources and data through unauthorized access.
I used to consider myself a LISP hacker, but since the sendmail debacle, I had to change my .finger to say "wizard" to keep our idiot congressmen from locking me up for redefining the comma operator.
by Carl Klapper June 05, 2006
Get the hackermug.