No, "hacker" really does mean "hacker"(erratasec.blogspot.com)
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No, "hacker" really does mean "hacker"
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/08/no-hacker-really-does-mean-hacker.html
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I was under the impression that the term was coined at MIT in the model railroad club.
http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html
http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html
The term hackers was used in the 50s, well before. The 1963 quote.
The article specified the first use of the term as applied to a criminal act, not just in general.
I think we read this sentence differently.
>>The earliest known use of "computer hacker" described a criminal act
I read it to mean that the earliest recorded use of the term computer hacker was when it was used to describe a criminal act, Where as you seem to have taken it to say the earliest recorded use of the term computer hacker in the context of a criminal act.
Given the context of the rest of the article, I think I am more correct.
>>The earliest known use of "computer hacker" described a criminal act
I read it to mean that the earliest recorded use of the term computer hacker was when it was used to describe a criminal act, Where as you seem to have taken it to say the earliest recorded use of the term computer hacker in the context of a criminal act.
Given the context of the rest of the article, I think I am more correct.
Coming from the infosec side of things its still odd to me that developers use the term so much. :)