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cracker (noun) : 1)Person below a hacker who spends computer time breaking into secure computes. From "Safe-cracker". One who has a grandiose screen names that conceal their identity. A dark sided hacker who uses a computer to break into another. 2) A software program that used to encrypt/decrypt files using computer algoritms used to break into secur...

They will call themselves hackers, but the local hackers do not associate themselves with these crackers whose intent is to load down or destroy the university computer system. A portable password cracker with built-in efficient implementations of multiple password hashing algorithms found on various Unix flavors. —Computer Jargon, 1980

Submitted by: Dan Salinas from New Mexico on Jan. 09, 2006 19:14

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