[widgetycrank]

I've always wondered what's the Chinese word for "hacker" in the its original context. 网客 sounds good, but it seems to implies web hackers only.

[sabalaba]

yea that was something we struggled with due to the massively negative connotations of 黑客 (heike) lit. "Dark Guest" or "Black Guest". We toyed with 白客 but found 网客 was the general term we found on Baidupedia （百度百科）.

[kaptain]

But it sounds, phonetically, like 'wanker'.