> Why the security theater industry has appropriated "hacking" to mean accessing other people's systems without authorization, I don't know. A lot of early rem

> Why the security theater industry has appropriated "hacking" to mean accessing other people's systems without authorization, I don't know. A lot of early remote access was done by hackers. Same with exploiting vulnerabilities. One of my favorite is the Robin Hood worm: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/xerox.txt https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/xerox.txt TL;DR: Engineers from Motorola exploited a vulnerability illustrate it, and they did so in a humorous way. Within the tribe of hackers, this is pretty normal, but the only difference between that and stealing everything once the vulnerability has been exploited is intent. Normies only hear about the ones where people steal things. They don't care about the funny kind.