whitewig

[Gerald Combs]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> The term "hacker" includes the concept of "cracker", unless the latter is 
> being used to distinguish a subset of the former.  "Hacker" and it's meaning 
> pre-date computers.

The term "cracker" is next to useless.  I'd venture to guess that for
most people the definition of "cracker" is a way, far-off distant fifth
behind:

  The flat bread-food
  A caucasian
  Something that separates chemical compounds, and
  The alterno-college-rock band

Most people simply don't associate it with computing.