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dark-side hacker n.

A criminal or malicious hacker; 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. Oppose samurai.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.