hacker
ha ker
- n someone who plays golf poorly
- n a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
- n a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers - n one who works hard at boring tasks
- After hackers, claiming to be Chinese, exploited a construction error on the information highway recently, their mischief led to traffic jams and crashes around the world last week.
- Like a character in a William Gibson novel, the teenage hacker Analyzer allegedly mounted a cyber-commando raid on Pentagon computers from central Israel, and then discussed .
- Jonathan Littman has a reputation as a friend of the hackers, one of the few journalists covering the computer underground whom its denizens can trust.