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The parent comment noted that words can mean entirely different things, or not, between groups. My 14 year old niece says her Facebook was "hacked" by her frie

The parent comment noted that words can mean entirely different things, or not, between groups. My 14 year old niece says her Facebook was "hacked" by her friend. She had given her password to her to log in. Words have different meanings between groups, and "hack" seems very loose in use all around. > difference between "arrested" and "convicted" Both of those words have separate definitions in a formal setting (e.g. U.S. Courts). Is there a governing body that everyone regular subscribes to that delineates the difference between "attacked" and "hacked"? It really does not seem a reckless choice of words considering the audience the article is writing for.

mehrdadn 8y ago
Dude... this is TechCrunch, not USA Today. Their target audience is not the average grandma. Literally the title of their own article from May 2017 that they linked back to in this same article said "the FCC's comment system was targeted by DDoS attacks". The word "hack" didn't even appear in the article, just apparently in the tag for some clearly unwarranted reason. Now that they have hot news, they're deciding it grabs more eyeballs to call it a "hack" rather than a DDoS attack. If this kind of slander (yes, this would be slander if you could slander a government agency... they are accusing the FCC of a lie it apparently never uttered) had been about almost any other topic, the HN crowd would've grabbed their pitchforks already, bashing the reporters for being so tech-illiterate that they can't tell the difference between a successful defense and a failed defense. But we all hate the FCC now, so we're chill with whatever reckless fact-changing and slander that we can make stick on them. And apparently we defend each other in doing so.