From Britannia: https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker > Indeed, the first recorded use of the word hacker in print ap

From Britannia: https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker > Indeed, the first recorded use of the word hacker in print appeared in a 1963 article in MIT’s The Tech detailing how hackers managed to illegally access the university’s telephone network. I get what you’re saying, but I think we’re tilting at windmills. If “hacker” has a connotation of “breaking in” for 61 years now, then the descriptivist answer is to let it be.