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Cracker
/kra-kər/
n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of
hacker
(q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish 'worm' in this sense around 1981-82 on
USENET
was largely a failure.
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