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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 months ago

To my knowledge, it's a name that came out of the free software / GNU movement. So, "hackers" as in clever problem solvers, not those that break into insecure systems.

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 months ago

Which should be known as a "cracker", but yeah mainstream media fucked the word "hacker" to mean something it doesn't.

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