Quite poetic, how that word, of all words, has come to have such a nebulous meaning.
Another favourite of mine:
- Hacker
I so prefer (and identity with) the "tinkerer" definition, rather than the popularly accepted "cracker/cyber-criminal" one.
I think I speak on behalf of all H^H^H^HTinkerers: we would like our fucking word back now, please.
hacker ˈhakə noun
1. a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
2. a person or thing that hacks or cuts roughly.
And only after you expand it, do you get under (1):
> informal an enthusiastic and skilful computer programmer or user
...which isn't exactly it, either. Also, I seem to remember it "google define" used to name the sources, but it doesn't seem to do so for this one.
Wikipedia is right on the money, though [1] [2].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(term)
Quite poetic, how that word, of all words, has come to have such a nebulous meaning.
Another favourite of mine:
- Hacker
I so prefer (and identity with) the "tinkerer" definition, rather than the popularly accepted "cracker/cyber-criminal" one.
I think I speak on behalf of all H^H^H^HTinkerers: we would like our fucking word back now, please.