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At this point the word "hack" has changed completely. With hackathons people use "hack" to mean "build quickly", and for the general population "hack" is just "
by lucasmullens 11y ago
At this point the word "hack" has changed completely. With hackathons people use "hack" to mean "build quickly", and for the general population "hack" is just "my friend left their Facebook open so I posted a status". I think fighting against that is a lost cause.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoIt has changed in the UK especially because of the phone "hacking" scandal. Scandal should have changed meaning too come to think of it.
- DanBC 11y agoBut that involved unauthorised access by guessing (mostly default) passwords; that's a pretty standard definition of hacking.
- the_ancient 11y agoIt has changed many times, today it is closer to the 1970's definition, in the 80's and 90's the news media picked up "hacking" to described "breaking computer security" which is what most people think when you say "hacking" but that was NOT the original definition.