Hacker

In computing, a hacker is a person in one of several distinct (but not completely disjoint) communities and subcultures: Today, mainstream usage mostly refers to computer criminals, due to the mass media usage of the word since the 1980s. This includes script kiddies, people breaking into computers using programs written by others, with very little knowledge about the way they work. This usage has become so predominant that a large segment of the... more

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