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The meaning of the word ‘hacker’ in its original sense was, possibly, born in MIT in 60-s, long before computers got wide-spread. Then it was a part of the local slang and could mean a simple but rude solution of … Continue reading →

Life hack (from English life hack) is a set of methods and ways of ‘breaking’ the environment to simplify achievements of the set goals with the help of various useful advice and fast ones. Life hacker does not usually create new methods … Continue reading →

A hackish attack is understood as ‘Criminal attempt for the security system’ in the narrow sense of the word at present, and rather inclines to the sense of the following term ‘Cracker attack’. It has occurred due to distortion of … Continue reading →

Hacker’s Manifesto (Engl. Hacker Manifesto, The Conscience of a Hacker) is a text written on the 08th of January 1986 by a hacker Lloyd Blankenship, famous after his arrest by agents of FBI. A somewhat later this text (that became … Continue reading →

Characters-hackers are sufficiently spread in science fiction, especially in the genre cyberpunk. In this context hackers are usually protagonists which struggle for oppressive structures which are predominantly a transnational corporation. This struggle is usually for freedom and access to information. … Continue reading →

It is common practice to esteem time of theirs and other hackers (not to reinvent the wheel) that, particularly, implies necessity to share with their achievements creating free and/or open programs. Free program software — a wide range of program … Continue reading →

Historical reasons of differences in meanings of the word ‘hacker’ The meaning of the word ‘hacker’ in its original sense was, possible, born in MIT in 60-s, long before computers got wide-spread. Then it was a part of the local … Continue reading →

There is a community, some common culture consisting of experienced programmers and network magicians, history of which is traced back to the first minicomputers with time division and the earliest experiments with the net ARPAnet. Members of this culture gave … Continue reading →