I think this is a great line actually. The media is largely responsible for corrupting the original meaning of the word. At least they're now showing people it has multiple meanings, and that hacker doesn't always mean "malicious cracker".
I also got that feeling when I read this line. The word "hacker" has so many permutations that it needs to be qualify, ie malicious hacker, SaaS hacker, life hacker. It still means that the hacker is doing something to disrupt their domain.