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I tried to tell a group of friends yesterday that the N Korean internet could have been brought down by script kiddies. When asked what that meant, I said "hackers" and everyone shook their head in agreement and said "ahh, hackers."

Hackers is just a generic term these days, no use getting upset about it.

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When asked what a Script Kiddie was, you could have just said they figured out how to press the Refresh button faster than most other people.

Calling them Hackers is giving in, as is looking at it as "that ship has sailed". Language is fluid, it's always changing, and all we have to do to keep the term Hacker is to keep correcting people who mis-use it.

Did Electrical Engineers give in and start calling it "sodder"? No. They correct you when you mis-pronounce the word solder. I argue this is no different.

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