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* If you are a writer or journalist, don't say or write hacker when you mean cracker. If you work with writers or journalists, educate them on this issue and push them to do the right thing.
* If you're a techie or computer hobbyist, get involved with one of the free Unixes. Toss out that lame Microsoft OS, or confine it to one disk partition and put Linux or FreeBSD or NetBSD on the other one. And the next time your friend or boss is thinking about some commercial software `solution' that costs more than it's worth, be ready to blow the competition away with free software running over i free Unix.
* Contribute to organizations like the Free Software Foundation that promote the production of high-quality free software. You can reach the Free Software Foundation at gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu, by phone at +1-617-542-5942, or by snail-mail at 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
* Support the League for Programming Freedom, which opposes over-broad software patents that constantly threaten to blow up in hackers' faces. preventing them from developing innovative software for tomorrow's needs. You can reach the League for Programming Freedom at lpf@uunet.uu.net. by phone at +1 617 621 7084, or by snail-mail at 1 Kendall Square #143, P.O.Box 9171, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA.
* If you do nothing else, please fight government attempts to seize political control of Internet content and restrict strong cryptography. If the so-called "Communication Decency Act" is still law when you read this, join the Citizens' Internet Empowerment Coalition lawsuit to have it quashed. Surf to the Center for Democracy and technology's home page at http://www.cdt.org to see what you can do to help.
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