I'm pretty sure I read this complaint on Slashdot, circa 1997.
Despite what people claim, it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. For example the movie "War Games"(1983)[1] uses the term Hacker to refer to someone who hacked into computer systems.
A word can have multiple connotations without causing problems.
I hope people get this already. Hacking is a skill set, and a general approach to doing things. As with everything, you can use it to do all sort of things, some of them less nice.
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I'm pretty sure I read this complaint on Slashdot, circa 1997.
Despite what people claim, it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. For example the movie "War Games"(1983)[1] uses the term Hacker to refer to someone who hacked into computer systems.
A word can have multiple connotations without causing problems.
[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
I hope people get this already. Hacking is a skill set, and a general approach to doing things. As with everything, you can use it to do all sort of things, some of them less nice.
Exactly what I was thinking: "People are still on about this? It's like late-90s Slashdot!"