Re: I knew this would happen...
Also the non-IT people would have a hard way understanding those subtle differences.
Don't forget there are lots of people who don't live in the IT world, don't know it (and don't really care to either). For those people the good guys build/maintain/repair a system, while the baddies destroy/penetrate or steal from it, and those have been called "hackers" since the general public first heard about a contraption some call "computer". It might be the wrong term, but it's the one they're used to. Trying to tell them otherwise with a woolly and totally incomprehensible explanation is bound to fail...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
