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Those aren't exclusive, hacker doesn't necessarily have a bad connotation (see "white hat").
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
Those aren't exclusive, hacker doesn't necessarily have a bad connotation (see "white hat").
- scythe 6y agoIn my original post I didn't want to use the word "hacker" to mean "breaker-into of systems" while posting on a site called Hacker News. But my point wasn't that people can't have their credentials revoked for doing bad things, my point was that if actual security researchers -- say, a team from some university or prominent firm -- had done this, we would be having a very different conversation right now. We might stop calling them researchers next week, but history matters. As far as I can tell, the people who broke into Parler are not far beyond script kiddies, if at all.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoOk, sorry for being pedantic.