This article is owned by Filipe Medeiros. I've never done anything illegal on anyone elses computer. No, not me. Hacker sounds like such a violent word.
Hackers hack, and to hack is to chop with repeated irregular blows to cut or mutilate.
It's not a nice term to be referred by, especially for one who detests the general definition of a computer hacker. Pop Jargon defines a hacker as one who gains unauthorized , usually illegal, access to another's computer system. A less informed definition would imply that a person who creates viruses, tampers with one's files, or illegally gains access to one's personal information and passwords is a hacker. Hackers are viewed as devious computer whizzes who spend all of their goddamn time accessing other's personal information, attaining passwords, destroying one's files, sending chain letters to the CIA, undermining the government, and starting revolutions in Chile. While people who fit these definitions are probably a hackers, it does not necessarily mean that all hackers fit these definitions.