Yep, sorry guys - I know I'll get crap for this, but:
The word is the clue as it implies 'invasive force'. Any other meaning is only going to be accepted when enough of you agree 'it is so'. The original meaning (and I've always known it as such, 30+ years) is perfectly outlined by the paragraph above. It does not refer to white-hat stuff.
The original word is 'hack':
cut with rough or heavy blows.hack off the dead branches
a rough cut, blow, or stroke.he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him"
(in sports) a kick or hit inflicted on another player.a cut or gash.a tool for rough striking or cutting, e.g., a mattock or a miner's pick.
I'm going to catch shit for this. Can't we all just get along? :)
EDIT: Fine down-vote me you evil b'stards - b'stard is a person without married parents :)
You rightly should catch the said substance for this. It's a misuse of the etymology.
Hack does refer to cutting with rough or heavy blows. Centuries ago, "hackers" referred to people who made rough-shod furniture with an axe. That was a hack back then.
In WW2, "hackers" were mechanics in the US Navy who hacked off the broken parts of airplanes to weld together the working parts of broken planes. That was also a hack. The planes were referred to as "hack jobs."
History is littered with examples using exactly the meaning you cited that are quite the opposite of nefarious. The very essence of Maker culture is about the old definition of "hacker."
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Yep, sorry guys - I know I'll get crap for this, but:
The word is the clue as it implies 'invasive force'. Any other meaning is only going to be accepted when enough of you agree 'it is so'. The original meaning (and I've always known it as such, 30+ years) is perfectly outlined by the paragraph above. It does not refer to white-hat stuff.
The original word is 'hack':
cut with rough or heavy blows. hack off the dead branches
a rough cut, blow, or stroke. he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him" (in sports) a kick or hit inflicted on another player. a cut or gash. a tool for rough striking or cutting, e.g., a mattock or a miner's pick.
I'm going to catch shit for this. Can't we all just get along? :)
EDIT: Fine down-vote me you evil b'stards - b'stard is a person without married parents :)
You rightly should catch the said substance for this. It's a misuse of the etymology.
Hack does refer to cutting with rough or heavy blows. Centuries ago, "hackers" referred to people who made rough-shod furniture with an axe. That was a hack back then.
In WW2, "hackers" were mechanics in the US Navy who hacked off the broken parts of airplanes to weld together the working parts of broken planes. That was also a hack. The planes were referred to as "hack jobs."
History is littered with examples using exactly the meaning you cited that are quite the opposite of nefarious. The very essence of Maker culture is about the old definition of "hacker."
O bugger... ok then, I give up :)
Actually, that definition matches the other usage, too: people force a system to do things it isn't supposed to do; they "hack" at it until it works.
(But I agree that "hacker" has meant invading systems as long as it has meant anything else)
Fair enough: It will ultimately depend on what the majority decide on. It's all just another perspective I guess.