"Hacker" has many meanings. A quick read of the Wikipedia entry for the term shows you that. RFC 1392 defines a hacker as "A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular." The only way to tell which definition is in use is via context, and for this case the meaning is unambiguously aligned with the RFC 1392 definition.
(Note that this RFC comes from the days when 'hacker' was becoming a widespread term for someone who breaks into computer systems; the RFC attempts to distinguish between a 'hacker' and a 'cracker.')
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"Hacker" has many meanings. A quick read of the Wikipedia entry for the term shows you that. RFC 1392 defines a hacker as "A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular." The only way to tell which definition is in use is via context, and for this case the meaning is unambiguously aligned with the RFC 1392 definition.
(Note that this RFC comes from the days when 'hacker' was becoming a widespread term for someone who breaks into computer systems; the RFC attempts to distinguish between a 'hacker' and a 'cracker.')