Date: Thursday, 9 August 1984 16:31 mst From: Ronald B. Harvey Subject: Miscellaneous Digest V3 #23 Reply-To: {mbx >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} To: {list >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} Miscellaneous Digest Volume 3 : Issue 23 Today's topics: more New Jersey Crackers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Delivery-Date: 8 August 1984 14:23 mst Delivery-By: Network_Server.Multics (jay@angband@angband.ARPA@MIT-MUL) Date: Wednesday, 8 August 1984 11:34 mst From: Jay C Pattin Subject: more New Jersey Redistributed-Date: 8 August 1984 15:41 mst Redistributed-From: Pattin Redistributed-To: {mbx >udd>m>jjl>misc>misc} Monroe Township, NJ (AP) Five weeks ago, Gerry Clevenger was just a struggling hot dog vendor fighting City Hall officials who considered forcing her off her usual street corner because she was too good-looking and could distract motorists. Today, the "attractive nuisance," as officials had labeled her, is a major tourist attraction in this southern New Jersey community some 20 miles from Philadelphia. Her previously sluggish business is booming, she gets regular fan mail and she has had several job offers. The 30-year-old mother of three boys attracted noteriety last month after township officials said they would try and close her roadside stand because her beauty could cause rubbernecking male motorists to become involved in accidents. "I was ... shocked. I didn't believe that they said something like that," the Glassboro resident said Monday. But now Clevenger says that she loves the attention the case has brought and that her hot dog sales have tripled. "People have come from Loiusiana, New York, Pennsylvania, California, and Maryland. They said they were in the area visiting, and they stopped by to see me," she said. "And I like getting customers. I used to sit out here and wave to people, but I didn't sell any hot dogs." The flurry of customers has allowed her to achieve one of her goals, to be dropped from the welfare roles, she said. Meanwhile, she sais, she is getting job offers from people who want her to work selling everything from insurance to computers. She also has set about answering fan mail that comes from as far away as Canada. And she still grants an interview or two a week to radio and television talk shows and reporters interested in her tale. Clevenger says she started selling hot dogs when a friend suggested it might be a good way to make money during the summer. But business was slow, she said -- until Butch D'Alessandro began complaining about her to Monroe Township officials. D'Alessandro owns Butch's Little Ponderosa, a small sandwich shop across the street from Clevenger's stand, and he argues that it was unfair that she could compete with him because she did not have his overhead expenses. Township Council President Vincent Tarantino and other local lawmakers discussed "whether she could be considered an attractive nuisance," according to minutes of a meeting in which officials considered how to close her down. But when the story got out, the council and D'Alessandro backed off, she said. ------------------------------ Date: Thursday, 9 August 1984 16:25 mst From: Ronald B. Harvey Subject: Crackers in bed with Hackers X-Comments: (From Human-Nets) Date: Sun 5 Aug 84 14:50:46-PDT From: Richard Treitel Subject: re: Crackers and Hackers A nice simple easily memorisable definition is the following: "A cracker is a CRiminally inclined hACKER" Some people may take exception to the implication that even a minority of hackers have criminal inclinations, and others may argue that most crackers are not talented enough to deserve to be called hackers. I get more and more sympathetic to Mark Crispin's fondness for the plain old word "vandal". - Richard ------------------------------ Date: 7 August 1984 07:41-EDT From: Robert Elton Maas Subject: hacker vs. cracker A "hacker" is somebody who has a penchant for understanding how computer systems really work instead of the misleading or incomplete descriptions that occur in documentation, and using such knowledge for making things work more efficiently than by advertised means or for making things work that seem impossible based on published information. A "cracker" is somebody who has a penchant for violating the security of computer systems. It used to be the two were related, if you were an expert at the security aspects of a system you could possibly figure out how to violate them. But now with thousands of random people banging away at a security system until one person accidently discovers a flaw in it, and that one person advertising a recipe for violating the security on hundreds of bulletin boards arond the country, then thousands of random users of those bulletin boards using that recipe to violate that one system, you don't have to know anything about a system to break into it using a recipe you happen to see on a bulletin board, so crackers aren't necessarily (or even usually) hackers any more. ------------------------------ End of Miscellaneous Digest ***************************