A Hacker
A hacker is a person obsessed with computers. At the heart of the
obsession is a drive master the computer. The classic hacker was simply a
compulsive programmer. It is only recently that the term hacker became
associated with the computerized vandalism.
Great description of Hackers: Bright young men of disheveled
apperance,Often with sunken, glowing eyes.Seen sitting at computer consoles,
their arms tense and waitingTo fire their fingers which are already posed to
strike at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to dice.They work
until they nearly drop,twenty or thirty hours at a time if possible.They sleep
on cots near the computer,but only a few hours-then back to the console, or
printouts.Their crumpled clothes, their unwashed, unsheven faces, and uncombed
hair, testify that they are oblivious to their bodies and to the word in which
they move. They exist, at least when so gaged, only through and for the
computers.
The majority of hackers are......
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