Hacker

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What is a Hacker[edit]

Ties to Theory.

By style and experience of activity[edit]

Collected by user on Telegram channel.


"As Levy summarized in the preface of Hackers, the general tenets or principles of hacker ethic include:

  • Sharing
  • Openness
  • Decentralization
  • Free access to computers
  • World Improvement (foremost, upholding democracy and the fundamental laws we all live by, as a society)"

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic)

They added: "Of course YMMV. There's no central organization that defines what a hacker is. Hacker cultures are living and diverse cultures!"


By techno-political capacity, applied to counter-hegemonic goals[edit]

See:

  • McKenzie Wark : A Hacker Manifesto
  • (Telegram channel pinned messages as of 2025/7, will be transcluded).
  • etc


Sources[edit]

  • Steven K Roberts:
    • https://microship.com/the-hackers-shack/ (1989) talks about hacker as ~ "deriving pleasure from circumventing limitations ... pushing new ideas past the skeptical mainstream of an industry", and mentions "recent" mainstream media "slander" of hackers as "computer criminals" or "evil-minded revolutionaries".
    • That reporting (by CBS) is detailed here: https://microship.com/hackers-1988-cbs/ (1988)


Other types of definitions[edit]

  • As "information security expert" (either "black hat" or "white hat")
  • As "computer criminal" — offensive and destructive agent
  • etc


How Do You Say "Hacker" In...[edit]

French
bidouilleur (translate bidouilleur back to English on Google Translation), hacker
fouineur (translate back to English on WordReference), finaud
Russian
Xakep