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The words "hack" and "hacker" are cognates, but both words have evolved over time, and not all senses of the word "hacker" describe someone who produces hacks.
by mumblemumble 6y ago
The words "hack" and "hacker" are cognates, but both words have evolved over time, and not all senses of the word "hacker" describe someone who produces hacks. Social engineers and script kiddies can absolutely fit under the umbrella, too, and that's been the case for roughly a quarter century now. Perhaps longer.
- thesepeopledot 6y ago"Produces hacks" this isn't even a thing. Can people please stop commenting on HN threads pretending to know about hacking and making false claims.
- mumblemumble 6y agoProducing hacks is a thing, even if the phrase itself is not common, and it's a thing that people were doing long before hacking/hacker had even taken on the sense of breaking into computers. Look, there are really only two general approaches to arguing over the dictionary: Trotskyism (i.e., permanent revolution), and joining with the forces of evil.