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		WalterBright on July 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most people have no idea what the word hacker mean... Hackers have been complaining about that since at least the mid-seventies. Yes, I was there.

dlubarov on July 26, 2011 [–]

Yes... this is very, very old news.

padrack on July 26, 2011 | [–]

The debate is very old. But the explosion of news coverage around the word hacker has happened in the last three years.

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