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

Must_I?

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Cyber criminal seems to be all the rage anyway. Why insist on perpetuating misuse?

Words do change over time, but the professional community still uses the term as originally intended. Promoting a different definition to the layman merely promotes suspicion of expertise.

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