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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Chapter 9. Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="pt01.html" title="Part I. Introduction"/><link rel="previous" href="international-style.html" title="Chapter 8. International Style"/><link rel="next" href="pronunciation.html" title="Chapter 10. Pronunciation Guide"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 9. Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="international-style.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part I. Introduction</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pronunciation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="crackers"/>Chapter 9. Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>From the early 1980s onward, a flourishing culture of local,
+MS-DOS-based bulletin boards developed separately from Internet hackerdom.
+The BBS culture has, as its seamy underside, a stratum of ‘pirate
+boards’ inhabited by <a href="C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>s, phone phreaks, and
+<a href="W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>.  These people (mostly teenagers running
+IBM-PC clones from their bedrooms) have developed their own characteristic
+jargon, heavily influenced by skateboard lingo and underground-rock slang.
+While BBS technology essentially died out after the 
+<a href="G/Great-Internet-Explosion.html"><i class="glossterm">Great Internet Explosion</i></a>, the cracker culture
+moved to IRC and other Internet-based network channels and maintained a
+semi-underground existence.</p><p>Though crackers often call themselves ‘hackers’, they aren't
+(they typically have neither significant programming ability, nor Internet
+expertise, nor experience with UNIX or other true multi-user systems).  Their
+vocabulary has little overlap with hackerdom's, and hackers regard them with
+varying degrees of contempt.  But ten years on the brightest crackers tend to
+become hackers, and sometimes to recall their origins by using cracker slang
+in a marked and heavily ironic way.</p><p>This lexicon covers much of cracker slang (which is often called
+“<span class="quote">leet-speak</span>”) so the reader will be able to understand both what
+leaks out of the cracker underground and the occasional ironic use by
+hackers.</p><p>Here is a brief guide to cracker and <a href="W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>
+usage:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Misspell frequently.  The substitutions phone → fone and
+freak → phreak are obligatory.</p></li><li><p>Always substitute ‘z’s for ‘s’s.
+(i.e. “<span class="quote">codes</span>” → “<span class="quote">codez</span>”).  The substitution of
+‘z’ for ‘s’ has evolved so that a ‘z’ is
+now systematically put at the end of words to denote an illegal or cracking
+connection. Examples : Appz, passwordz, passez, utilz, MP3z, distroz, pornz,
+sitez, gamez, crackz, serialz, downloadz, FTPz, etc.</p></li><li><p> Type random emphasis characters after a post line
+(i.e. “<span class="quote">Hey Dudes!#!$#$!#!$</span>”).  </p></li><li><p> Use the emphatic ‘k’ prefix
+(“<span class="quote">k-kool</span>”, “<span class="quote">k-rad</span>”, “<span class="quote">k-awesome</span>”)
+frequently.  </p></li><li><p> Abbreviate compulsively (“<span class="quote">I got lotsa warez w/
+docs</span>”).</p></li><li><p>
+TYPE ALL IN CAPS LOCK, SO IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE YELLING ALL THE TIME.
+</p></li></ul></div><p>The following letter substitutions are common:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
+    a → 4<br/>
+    e → 3<br/>
+    f → ph<br/>
+    i → 1 or |<br/>
+    l → | or 1<br/>
+    m → |\/|<br/>
+    n → |\|<br/>
+    o → 0<br/>
+    s → 5<br/>
+    t → 7 or +<br/>
+</p></div><p>Thus, “<span class="quote">elite</span>” comes out “<span class="quote">31337</span>” and “<span class="quote">all
+your base are belong to us</span>” becomes “<span class="quote">4ll y0ur b4s3 4r3 b3l0ng t0
+us</span>”, Other less common substitutions include:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
+    b → 8<br/>
+    c → ( or k or |&lt; or /&lt;<br/>
+    d → &lt;|<br/>
+    g → 6 or 9<br/>
+    h → |-|<br/>
+    k → |&lt; or /&lt;<br/>
+    p → |2<br/>
+    u → |_|<br/>
+    v → / or \/<br/>
+    w → // or \/\/<br/>
+    x → &gt;&lt;<br/>
+    y → '/<br/>
+</p></div><p>The word “<span class="quote">cool</span>” is spelled “<span class="quote">kewl</span>” and normally
+used ironically; when crackers really want to praise something they use the
+prefix “<span class="quote">uber</span>” (from German) which comes out “<span class="quote">ub3r</span>”
+or even “<span class="quote">|_|83r</span>”</p><p>These traits are similar to those of <a href="B/B1FF.html"><i class="glossterm">B1FF</i></a>, who
+originated as a parody of naive <a href="B/BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> users; also of his
+latter-day equivalent <a href="J/Jeff-K-.html"><i class="glossterm">Jeff K.</i></a>.  Occasionally, this sort
+of distortion may be used as heavy sarcasm or ironically by a real hacker, as
+in:</p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
+    &gt; I got X Windows running under Linux!
+
+    d00d!  u R an 31337 hax0r
+</pre></td></tr></table><p>The words “<span class="quote">hax0r</span>” for “<span class="quote">hacker</span>” and
+“<span class="quote">sux0r</span>” for “<span class="quote">sucks</span>” are the most common references;
+more generally, to mark a term as cracker-speak one may add “<span class="quote">0r</span>”
+or “<span class="quote">xor</span>”.  Examples:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
+    “<span class="quote">The nightly build is sux0r today.</span>”<br/>
+    “<span class="quote">Gotta go reboot those b0x0rz.</span>”<br/>
+    “<span class="quote">Man, I really ought to fix0r my .fetchmailrc.</span>”<br/>
+    “<span class="quote">Yeah, well he's a 'leet VMS operat0r now, so he's too good for us.</span>”<br/>
+</p></div><p>The only practice resembling this in native hacker usage is the
+substitution of a dollar sign of ‘s’ in names of products or
+service felt to be excessively expensive, e.g. Compu$erve, Micro$oft.</p><p>For further discussion of the pirate-board subculture, see
+<a href="L/lamer.html"><i class="glossterm">lamer</i></a>, <a href="E/elite.html"><i class="glossterm">elite</i></a>,
+<a href="L/leech.html"><i class="glossterm">leech</i></a>, <a href="P/poser.html"><i class="glossterm">poser</i></a>,
+<a href="C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>, and especially 
+<a href="W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, <a href="B/banner-site.html"><i class="glossterm">banner site</i></a>,
+<a href="R/ratio-site.html"><i class="glossterm">ratio site</i></a>, <a href="L/leech-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">leech mode</i></a>.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="international-style.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="pt01.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pronunciation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 8. International Style </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 10. Pronunciation Guide</td></tr></table></div></body></html>