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Definition of hacking

(Computers) To program (a computer) for pleasure or
compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security
systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer

hacking definition The computer ethicist Duncan Langford views hacking as an emotive term. He states that back in the 1960s and 1970s hacking was used to describe an individual working with computers who was technically gifted. In these infant times for computing there was perceived to be no implication that someone known as a computer hacker would act illegally. However, the social and computing environment has greatly changed since, and as tends to be with language, the use of the term hacker ‘expanded and its definition broadened'.
Langford (1995) argues that despite historical claims his definition of hacking is
‘obtaining and exploiting unofficial access to a computer system'
In one sense it's silly to argue about the ``true'' meaning of a word. A word means......

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