If a clear defenition is posted on or about the front page, this might help those with access problems convince the powers that be to permit them to view the site.
A hacker looks, but does not touch; hacking is a result
of a curious nature.
A cracker touches; cracking is a result of poor potty
training.
A hacker learns in order to learn.
A cracker learns in order to exploit.
Any true hacker has a Bushido-style sense of honor. A
hacker is a Samurai.
Crackers generally have no honor. A cracker is Ronin.
The term "cracker" was not chosen lightly; it was chosen
by hackers, not by journalists. "Cracking" intentionally
implies breakage, damage, or exploitation of some kind.
In fact, it is journalists who use the terms as if they
were the same thing, which pisses hackers off immensely,
and delights crackers no end, in the same way that a
person who habitually wore black in order to impersonate
a tortured young artist would be delighted to be mistaken
for one.
definition from poster in freebsd-security mailing list
http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list
