Por qué se usa mal la palabra ‘hacker’ en titulares

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Never mind that in ‘true’ hacker culture – as found in hackerspaces, maker-labs and open-source communities around the world – the mechanical act of breaking into a computer is just one manifestation of the drive to explore beyond established boundaries. In the hands of a sensationalist media, the ethos of hacking is conflated with the act of cracking computer security. Anyone who does that, regardless of the underlying ethos, is a ‘hacker’. Thus a single manifestation of a single element of the original spirit gets passed off as the whole.

-How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos – Brett Scott – Aeon

Sólo una definición en un gran texto que recomiendo y que explica lo que nos dejamos por el camino cuando desconocemos el origen de la cultura hacker, y contribuimos a su gentrificación.