"Hacker" of course, has overwhelmingly mostly lost the plot. Especially here, but elsewhere too. "Hacker" was a recognition that there existed a crusty old ent

"Hacker" of course, has overwhelmingly mostly lost the plot. Especially here, but elsewhere too. "Hacker" was a recognition that there existed a crusty old entrenched system (mostly not through any fault of any individual) and that it is good to poke and chip away at it, though exploring the limits of new technology. Whatever we're doing now here, it's emphatically not that.