How the word 'hacker' got corrupted Source: Sydney Morning
Herald - Posted by Dave Wreski    Security Hacker: It sounds
vicious and destructive, just like the malevolent electronic
villains it is used to describe. The more we rely on computers
the more we fear attacks on those computers and it's hardly
surprising that the news is full of hackers hacking into
computer systems and generally disrupting the online world with
their hacks. Yet this sense of the term is surprisingly new and,
what's more, is completely at odds with the original meaning
that arose within computer science.  Read this full article at
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