"hackers"

[Roger]

Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the 
outside world has of this term, one step at a time?
>
> Sorry, but it's a tad late to lock up the barn when the horse is 
> already been rendered down into glue.

As was discussed on ABC 774  with Raphael Epstein last week, the term 
Hacker is expediently, grossly and deliberately misused by the press and 
Government to create a negative impact.

Frankly Hackers, per se, as far as I understand the issue simply don't 
care, and from my perspective after reading  Julian Assange where he 
addresses the term and Daniel Domsheit-Berg and a few other books, my 
suggestion would be to stay out of it, leave well enough alone.

Arel