I believe your view of the definition 10 years ago is the incorrect one. Paraphrasing he Djikstra (misatributed quote) [1] hacking is no more about computer sec

I believe your view of the definition 10 years ago is the incorrect one. Paraphrasing he Djikstra (misatributed quote) [1] hacking is no more about computer security hacking than astronomy is about telescopes. AS can be seen in the Jargon File ("a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers" [2]) the definition for hacker "seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s" and "it was used in a sense close to this entry's by teenage radio hams and electronics tinkerers in the mid-1950s." [3] In the past years hacking (thanks to the connotation given by the mass media) became synonymous with "miscelaneous computer mischief, sometimes malicious and often related to computer network security" but that's a very recent phenomenon. [1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computer_science#Disputed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computer_science#Disputed [2] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html [3] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html