That largely depends on what your definition of "hacker" is. It has changed over the years to a completely different meaning, hacking was never meant to be a

That largely depends on what your definition of "hacker" is. It has changed over the years to a completely different meaning, hacking was never meant to be a direct reference to criminal activity but that seems to be where it has evolved The hacking culture was more about using technology, systems, or anything really in ways not originally intended by the manufacturer, or administrator of said system, technology or object That can be either legal or illegal but the act of hacking itself was not legal or illegal it depended on the system or object you where hacking Today however people almost exclusively use the term hacker to refer to criminal activity