I have given up educating people I met in daily life who misunderstand "hacker" and "cracker", but now I feel sad even on HN and with ESR's article [1] that people here still misunderstand these two.

Hope most HN readers are not coming here looking for new system breaches or vulnerabilities.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is