I'm all in favor of our version of "hacker", but is the word "cracker" really used? Does anyone self-identify as a "cracker"? (I don't move in those circles.) Or is it just an artificial concoction, presumably trying to wrest the word "hacker" away from that meaning?

(Also, the earliest recorded use of "hacker", unfortunately for our cause, did refer to breaking into a system, so this ambiguity is not just a big misunderstanding.)