Dark-side hacker

A Dark-side Hacker is a criminal and/or malicious hacker: what some call a cracker. From George Lucas's Darth Vader, "seduced by the dark side of the Force." The implication that hackers form a sort of elite of technological Jedi Knights is intended.

Contrast samurai

The initial version of this article came from The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.4.2, 22 May 2003