# Is it CRACKER or HACKER?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-cracker-or-hacker/152261
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 2, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-cracker-or-hacker/152261 "2003-02-02T05:59:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
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### Author: ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-cracker-or-hacker/152261/41 "2003-02-04T15:55:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by neuroman \*  
> **ftg** , obviously I’m not going to dispute your personal experience. But just because _you’ve_ never heard hacker used in anything but a negative context doesn’t mean that hacker = poor, incompetent programmer, end of story.

Please read other people’s post before inventing false statements that they never wrote.

I am shocked that someone on the SDMB would do this.

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