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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Hacker News: Hack everything! Cracking company: We've cracked the iPhone and are se
by wool_gather 9y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Hacker News: Hack everything!
Cracking company: We've cracked the iPhone and are selling the tech to law enforcement.
Ref:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html
- da_chicken 9y agoI'm sorry, but it's no longer the 1980s. In plain English, hacking now means "gain unauthorized access to a computer." You may not like it, but English is defined by usage, not whatever culture the one-time jargon was inherited from.
- wool_gather 9y agoRegardless, the point is that the parent's satirical accusation of hypocrisy is invalid because it's using the same word "hack" for two very different meanings.
- da_chicken 9y agoI mean, yes, that was the joke.
- josefresco 9y agoThis guy gets it.
- josefresco 9y agoReally?!? Your response to my lame joke about Hacker New hypocrisy is to define hacking vs cracking for me? Thanks man.