off topic... after listening to
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution during my commute over the last month (and to a degree Masters of Doom) it is distracting to see the word "hacker" in relation to cyber attacks/espionage. When I was growing up hacker always meant someone who broke into computer systems/networks, then I started hearing about hacking actually meaning something else originally and of course in more recent years with hacker news, hardware hacking and other usage of the word becoming more popular "hacker" seemed to take back its original meaning. Now after listening to some books that only use the word under its original meaning it is hard to take articles seriously that use it in relation to breaking into systems. When I saw the title of this article I misunderstood their usage of "hackers" /rant