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Geeks make a distinction between crackers, who break into systems to do damage, and hackers who enjoy taking programs apart just to see how they tick. We’ll stick with the more common, though less accurate, term of hacker. (The term ‘hacker’ originally meant ‘someone who makes furniture’ with an axe.
