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Hacking, IMHO is finding something cool about a thing & then taking that something and mixing it up. Make the thing do something never intended. In this parti
by patcheudor 10y ago
Hacking, IMHO is finding something cool about a thing & then taking that something and mixing it up. Make the thing do something never intended. In this particular case a kid found that he could print to printers which were connected to the Internet and then decided to start printing to printers using what amounts to a script. This isn't hacking. It's not novel. People connect printers to the Internet and he abused those connections. This is therefore a prank, not a hack.
- Dayshine 10y agoHacking is gaining unauthorized access to a system or computer...
- pavelmelnichuk 10y agoYour ellipsis suggests to are disagreeing with the original comment, else what you wrote is just a truism. The point of the original comment was that it was authorized by default as intended by design, and thus not a "hack."
- OJFord 10y agoI think Dayshine is disagreeing with the 'interesting' or 'novel' requirement of the top level comment.
- andai 10y agoThe design intended for random strangers to be able to print angry robots?
- patcheudor 10y agoYup. Sending a print-job to an open printing port isn't special and IMHO doesn't rise to be anything remotely close to "Hacking" or "Hacked". Everything is essentially working as designed, but just poorly implemented. It's similar to how DDoS isn't "Hacking".
- OJFord 10y agoIt's a well-overloaded term.
- eivarv 10y agoThere's some contention about the terms "hacking" and "cracking", as you might know.
- apocalypstyx 10y agoFor a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language. ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
- anewhnaccount 10y agoWriting and using a program not "using a script".
- pavel_lishin 10y agoNo True Scotsman would print funny things from a printer!