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The title of this website is literally in another sense than white/grey/black hacker.
by keybored 10mo ago
The title of this website is literally in another sense than white/grey/black hacker.
- f1shy 10mo agoLockpicking can also be in that colors, AFAIK.
- Rebelgecko 10mo agoLock picking falls under jargon files definition of "hack" imo
- wat10000 10mo agoDefinition 7 from the Jargon File: "One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations."
- _0ffh 9mo agoI went to hacker events where someone would sell lock-picking tools and practice locks like it's the most natural thing in the world.
- keybored 9mo agoMr. judge I’m not a black hat hacker. I’m a person, one of such nature who enjoys creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. Pick a fight with a room full of pedants snicker snicker.
- ghurtado 10mo agoOriginally the word "hacker" made no distinction between the two meanings. This site is pretty old, so you're right, it was intended in the original "Kevin Mitnik" sense (the original hacker, who ironically would fall outside of the modern definition) The modern acception focused on online computer security came much later. That meaning is neither the one used in the name of this site nor the one that would be relevant to this conversation. To summarize: today's hackers are also yesterday's hackers, but yesterday's hackers may or may not be modern hackers.
- cloudfudge 9mo agoIf I never hear nerds bicker over the various meanings of the word 'hacker' again, it will be too soon.
- johnfn 9mo agoLiterally from the horse's mouth, 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648199 > In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things It would be like if you were going over a list of pros and cons and when you got to the cons some guy was like "wow, you work with criminals, huh?" Then you tell him not that sort of con and he says "yeah, typical nerd bickering". C'mon.
- cloudfudge 9mo agoAnd yet it still isn't any more interesting to argue about.
- keybored 9mo agoHow do you know if a nerd doesn’t care what you’re talking about? They’ll tell you.