I don't think that "hacker" is a term that hasn't nor mustn't change/evolve from how it was referred to in a 1990s e-zine. But if you want to argue from the pr

I don't think that "hacker" is a term that hasn't nor mustn't change/evolve from how it was referred to in a 1990s e-zine. But if you want to argue from the prescriptivist stance, then how are you justified in choosing the 90s definition over its usage in 1963 at MIT, referring to intrusion and unauthorized usage of phone (or, today, the computer) systems, which the UGNazis have definitely been capable of? [0] Here's what Wikipedia has for the "general definition" [1]: 1. an adherent of the technology and programming subculture; see hacker culture. 2. someone who is able to subvert computer security. If doing so for malicious purposes, the person can also be called a cracker And while UGNazi sounds like it ended up being a bunch of assholes acting like assholes, its origin story shares a lot of themes with other widely-recognized hackers: > Around this time, Islam started UGNazi with the intention, he said, of protesting aggressive proposed anti-piracy and cybersecurity legislation Ignoring the argument over whether social engineering is "hacking", the attacks linked to UGNazi have included SQL injections/0-day exploits. Eric Taylor, the UGNazi founder not implicated in the woman's murder, is apparently now a cybersecurity researcher at Path [2] (not the social network, but a network systems startup). There's no indication that he was the only one of the 3 UGNazis to have technical chops. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20071025200829/http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0306B&L=ads-l&P=R5831&m=24290 https://web.archive.org/web/20071025200829/http://listserv.l... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker#Definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker#Definitions [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/27/eric-taylor-aka-cosmo-the-god-on-cyber.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/27/eric-taylor-aka-cosmo-the-go...