[mensetmanusman]

The term hacker continues to evolve and spread beyond sql overflow exploits into more mundane social api exploits.

[mingus88]

Mitnick was the most notorious “hacker” for decades and I don’t believe he was ever known for touching code.

His hacks were largely social engineering and manipulation of phone systems to enable more social engineering

https://ju.acm.org/magazine/articles/kevin-mitnick.html

[tarboreus]

He had a ton of proprietary code after a while so he did do some non-social stuff. But that was his main area.