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This might be the first time I've seen a mainstream news publication use the work "hacking" to mean something other than "criminal subversion of computer system
by mustpax 17y ago
This might be the first time I've seen a mainstream news publication use the work "hacking" to mean something other than "criminal subversion of computer systems." And we're talking Economist here, not Wired or another geeky outlet.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoTrue, but they used it a little too often in the sense of "amateur", which doesn't do justice to what hackers are in computing today. In biohacking it's a different matter in 2009.
- anigbrowl 17y agoamateur is one who loves a particular activity; doing something for nothing is a matter of choice, not of inability.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoOf course, but I think most hackers nowadays are not amateurs.