The original meaning was not only positive: "hacker"/"hacking" always had some subversive/countercultural (though clearly not criminal) undertone in it. In oth

The original meaning was not only positive: "hacker"/"hacking" always had some subversive/countercultural (though clearly not criminal) undertone in it. In other words: hackers were only "positive" for the "in-group"; to the establishment, they were annoying (up to somewhat dangerous).