For you and me, hacking means grokking stuff. For the mass-media influenced population, who are about 90% of population, hacking means breaking into systems an

For you and me, hacking means grokking stuff. For the mass-media influenced population, who are about 90% of population, hacking means breaking into systems and damaging or controlling them. Now what you mention is another different redefinition of hacking. Like a watering down effect, going from grokking to simply tinkering to even dabbling something. I don't like it either, and I would rather have hacker to keep its original meaning, but it is what it is.