On: Obama refuses to barter over Snowden

[slg]

While he might not be a hacker in our minds, whether he was permitted to access the documents he did is still up for debate. If he accessed them without permission, that would be enough to qualify him as a hacker under some definitions.

[potatolicious → slg]

It's still a pretty wild stretch of the term. By that notion, trespassing through an unlocked door would make me a locksmith.

[smoyer → slg]

Or perhaps a cracker if you believe in the original usage of the word.