[jshintaku]

When I was young man, now I feel old just saying that, hacking meant unauthorized access to computer systems. If you were a hacker you were a in general a blackhat because at that point no one knew what pen testing was or a that you could make a living as a white hat. When you got older and realized you could actually go to jail for being a black hat you converted and became a white hat and got a job as a penetration tester or vulnerability assessor.

Now the term "hacking" has been stolen and misused to the point where it has become a synonymous for developer. I suppose no one these days wants to call themselves a programmer or developer as it is a dirty word. Hacker is much cooler.