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It was always a positive term until mainstream media decided to depict the person in the back ski mask typing really fast and stealing bank accounts as a "hacke
by treehau5 9y ago
It was always a positive term until mainstream media decided to depict the person in the back ski mask typing really fast and stealing bank accounts as a "hacker"
I like rms's definition https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-hack.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-hack.en.html
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt wasn't just the mainstream media deciding out of nowhere to apply the label to an unrelated group; there was a substantial criminal element in hacker culture, and it was through that element that hacker culture became visible, and so that's why "hacker" got stuck on computer criminals.