Day In The Life Of A Cracker

from the uh-yeah,-ok dept

MSNBC claims they've got the diaries of two hackers that someone paid to record their illegal credit card stealing activities for a day. To be honest, they're really not very interesting. They just sit around and try to steal credit card accounts. They're not particularly creative about it, either.
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    Anonymous Coward, 2 Apr 2001 @ 12:47pm

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    That's pretty funny! The title sort of reminded me of a racial slur but I realised that it a software cracker and not a "cracker".

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    Anonymous Coward, 2 Apr 2001 @ 12:50pm

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    P.S. no offence intended, just found it funny

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    Mike (profile), 2 Apr 2001 @ 1:02pm

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    Heh. For a while people used to get offended if you used "hacker" when you meant "cracker" (which is basically a malicious hacker) but I wonder if those days are over...

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