What is HACKING?
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It's hard to argue about the true meaning of a word 'Hacking'.
A word means whatever people use it to mean.
Still, understanding the etymological history of the word "hacker'' may help in understanding the current social situation.
The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s.
Popular opinion at MIT posited that there are two kinds of students, tools and hackers.
A "tool'' is someone who attends class regularly, is always to be found in the library when no class is meeting, and gets straight As.