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Originally Posted by DWB
It was a poor analogy on many levels.
I didn't write the definitions for the word "hacker." Ask your grandma if she knows what a ddos is. She won't know. But chances are she knows what a hacker is because that is the word used over and over again in the media. They do this all the time, that is how they reach a broader audience.
"Hacker" is indeed a sensationalist term, but it is also the best term to use for the lowest common denominator when describing something like this.
The Bank Of America could go out of business tomorrow and the USD wouldn't be phased. All the banks could have problems and you wouldn't see a 20% drop in the USD. The Bang Of America could be robbed every hour on the hour and you wouldn't see any movement in the USD. A bank having trouble is not the same as a bank bailout. And yes, just about everyone knew what a "bank bailout" was. That was already as dumbed down as it could get. The term "bailout" is pretty cut and dry. Perhaps we didn't know the scope of it all, but everyone knew what it meant.
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my grandma wouldn't know what a hacker is, my mom didn't know, my dad described it as someone breaking into your computer and grabbing files. many non-sensationalist reports described it accurately as an attack, certainly that describes it better than hacked and more people would know that term over hacker.
either way, i think the media as irresponsible and over-sensational, you think they were accurate. we'll never know.
and no, many many people were confused about the bank bailouts. what is tarp, what is asset relief, what is too big to fail? all brand new terms and concepts.
there were many questions and a lot of people didn't understand it, including me.