That got me too. Stop using hacker to mean criminals and vandals, please. The word has a very rich and positive history [0]: it's much better to draw peoples' attention to that:
> The act of engaging in activities in a spirit of playfulness and exploration is termed "hacking". The defining characteristic of a hacker is not the activities performed themselves (e.g. programming), but the manner in which it is done.
>> What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."
That got me too. Stop using hacker to mean criminals and vandals, please. The word has a very rich and positive history [0]: it's much better to draw peoples' attention to that:
> The act of engaging in activities in a spirit of playfulness and exploration is termed "hacking". The defining characteristic of a hacker is not the activities performed themselves (e.g. programming), but the manner in which it is done.
>> What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture