I Am Not a Hacker, But I Wholeheartedly Approve of Them

Hackers build things, as in "I hacked together a program to search our web pages for outdated links." Crackers break things, as in "I cracked their web server and defaced it." Please do not use the the word 'hacker' when you mean 'cracker'.

I am not a hacker, because it is an honorary term, and I haven't earned it.

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Here is the Hacker Emblem: