A Short History on Hacking

Hacking has been around as long as computers as a way to reconfigure or reprogram a system to give access to someone who otherwise shouldn’t have that access. In the media, any electronic manipulation is often referred to as hacking, though “cracking” may often be more appropriate. Thanks to hacking, computer geeks can be “cool and dangerous”.

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Hacking is a lot more than "a way to reconfigure or reprogram a system to give access to someone who otherwise shouldn’t have that access." Look at Nash's original definition of a hacker: someone who uses a quick elaborate solution to sidestep a problem. This isn't limited to hacking computers and, I believe, Kevin Mitnick did more hacking without a computer, than with--social hacking his way into systems by lying and conning people into giving up passwords, not by using whistles or password cracks.

Hacking has also come to mean "repurposing"--making one thing do something it wasn't designed to do. Like taking a single-cup coffee maker that is designed to use proprietary filter-pods and hacking it so you can use other filter-pods or your own. All I'm trying to say here is that for once you've chosen to post a chart that misses the mark a bit--hacking covers much more than just computers. Really, it always has.

Keep up the great work, otherwise, though!