Reply to post: Re: Hacking is honourable

So it appears some of you really don't want us to use the word 'hacker' when we really mean 'criminal'

jake Silver badge

Re: Hacking is honourable

"I agree that English is a living language and meanings change over time <see decimate>"

Bad example. When the Latin decimatus (past participle of decimare) was imported into the English Language in the 1660s as the cognate decimate, it had pretty much the same meaning as it has today.

Journalism died with Herb Caen and Stan Delaplane.

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