Hacker vs. Cracker

[A. Vine]

Grant Barrett wrote:
>
> The Canadian Broadcast Corporation defends its use of "hacker" although computer
> geeks and coders say "cracker" is more accurate.

Gee, I must be completely out of touch, heads down creating software products,
because I've never heard the term "cracker" amongst my coworkers in that
context.  This must be a media term, or a non-Silicon Valley term, or
something.  Maybe us old folks are left out of this terminology creation thing -
"Sssh, here comes someone over 30!"