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Most Hackers Aren’t Criminals
- m463 7y agoThe term "hacker" is losing ground, wonder if this person has any chance og wrestling it back. The original term "Hacker" has been (irrevocably?) twisted to the domain of "security" and "intrusion". Hacker News is not about this type of hacker, I wonder if "hacker" is more formally defined somewhere on the site. The older more meaningful definition is described here: https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html and at length in this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...