[wanorris]

No, I think it's still in the creative sense. Consider this question from the Y Combinator application:

> Please tell us about the time you, {name}, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.

Other than the allegations of misleading clients regarding CDOs -- which, if true, are criminal and utterly reprehensible -- pretty much everything else on that list fits this criterion. Amoral and mercenary, but about hacking the system to their advantage.

It's regulators' jobs to close loopholes, but we should hardly be surprised when capitalist enterprises exploit them until they're closed.