Reply to post: Keep pushing water uphill with a sieve,...

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

Big_Boomer Silver badge

Keep pushing water uphill with a sieve,...

That's about how effective this whole "hacker does not mean criminal" campaign will be.

I ride motorcycles for fun, so I am a Biker. How many of you now picture me as a dirty, greasy, long haired, bearded, tattooed, leather clad thug? I am in fact none of those but I still ride motorcycles and I'm still a Biker despite what the world at large thinks when they hear the term Biker. Some riders refer to themselves as "motorcyclists" to try to avoid that negative connotation, but the media love it when a criminal leaves the scene of the crime on a scooter or motorcycle, because they can then use their pet phrase Biker to imply that anyone who prefers 2 wheels to 4 is not in their tribe and therefore to be despised.

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