[sci.crypt] VMS password *cracker* -- not "hacker"

booth@antique.UUCP (David Booth) (03/08/88)

	From: ecs140w020@deneb.ucdavis.edu

	Bunkersoft of Mountain View has a VMS password hacker . . . .
	The method used is a brute force attack.  . . . .

Please, this is more appropriately called a password *cracker* --
analogous to a safe cracker.  Many of us have been hacking, i.e.
seat-of-the-pants programming -- not breaking into computers -- for
years.

		Thanks,
		David Booth
	Arpanet: booth@vax135.att.com
	UUCP: {harvard, seismo, ucbvax}!vax135!booth