[ActorNightly]

> but I would love to live in an idealistic world where computers were still for hackers

This never changed.

In the past, hacking was exploiting human errors in writing faulty code. These days, its pretty much the same thing except the faulty code isn't things like buffer overflows due to no bounds checking, but more higher level faulty software with things like password reuse, no 2 factor authentication, and so on.

[dustfinger]

While that is partly what I meant, my notion was really about being creative, inventive and having a lot of fun hacking code or hardware without it being about work. I really meant these notions of hacking:

- https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

- https://stallman.org/articles/happy-hacking.html

- http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html