My guess? The same management that "knee-jerk reaction" bans a mag just because it has the word HACK in bold large text doesn't bother to figure out the actual contents of 2600.
They still carry them, but recently (starting maybe 2 or 3 years ago really), the BN in Philadelphia has been 'hiding' their copies of 2600 in the cabinets underneath the magazine racks.
I don't know if poor sales or customer complaints are the cause.
> Learn to Hack, Attack servers >> Crack passwords >> Exploit services >> Beat encryption >> Everything you need to be evil
Not sure if that warrants pulling from shelves, but it explicitly endorses illegal activity. Everything up until the last phrase could be sold as legitimate penetration testing. I can easily see their lawyers getting twitchy.
This article goes out to say that the term "Hack" is increasingly less commonly used to refer to malicious users. While that might be true in tech circles, I'm skeptical that a significantly larger group of people off the street would respond positively if I asked them what the term "hack" meant. I'm not saying Hacking is bad, I think the term has been somewhat hijacked, sure. But, let's be realistic, I think it's generally a negative term to most people and will probably stay that way into the indefinite future.
It's a neologism...a lingual bookmark for a concept in the popular consciousness. I'm not sure that you can just tell people they're "wrong" for using it. They'll just tell you you're wrong for not using it.
No. On this site hacker doesn't have any of its original meaning, it means IT-startup entrepreneur. Don't forget that this site was named Startup News before.
