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Wait, hacking? What exactly is hacking these days? In my day it meant circumventing the traditional uses of a piece of technology in order to achieve a certain result. They even called Canadian music downloaders "Demonic Downloaders" and "hackers".

We all know that the media is trying to prove their point and display something as either negative or positive, but all this guy did was find out her password and log in multiple times. If he ever hacked, it would be once, unless she changed her password every day 12 times a day.

But should he be charged for this, and should the media be speaking neutrally?

Yes.

Just because it's not technically "hacking" doesn't mean he DIDN'T trespass into someone else's private information and account. 500 times, yet.

wat

Just because he didn't hack in a technical sense, he's on the good side of morals? Sure not. What he did is just as illegal and also it actually is hacking, in a wider sense. There's no need to be that anal about the strict definition of that term.
Also, they don't have to be neutral. It's their choice. They can just as well go all the way down on a convicted killer when they think it's right to do so and they can go on a "hacker" like that as well, nobody forces them to be neutral and therefore it's their pick. Also, being neutral to crime is something very tricky for the media. They're basically not even allowed to because morally, crime sure gets the losing end and the media wants to be on the bright side of morals, so they have to rate crime and that's virtually always negative. Can't be neutral about rape either. When making a documentary about, let's say robbery, no kind of mainstream media would praise it highly. They made a sortof documentary about internet crimes.

I never said he was right for doing it, however is it really worth jail time if you find out someone's password? I suppose. If you get someone's house key and just keep walking into their house, you can be charged of some kind of trespassing, however irresponsible it may be.

Nonetheless, I'm in for some jail time if this is true.

Hacking isn't exclusive to computer or even electronics. It simply refers to an unconventional solution to a difficult problem. It could be something like fixing a problem in a game, or even something as trivial as using a gum wrapper in place of a fuse in a fusebox. Technically, using tape to fix a door would be a hack.

Normally, in computerprogramming, the term "Hack" means a simple solution that may lead to more problems, a fast fix that sometimes screws other things up. This is a derrogative term used when someone fixes a problem in an inelegant mannner.

For instance, you may have a problem in a game where you are trying to prevent a player from entering an area that you haven't added level geometry to. Some people just throw on an invisible wall at the edge of the play area, but this is ugly and can lower a games rating. The invisible wall is a hack, an inellegant solution.

A proper solution to the problem is to either put level geometry there, or to change up the level design and add cliffs, mountains, buildings, etc. to prevent players from entering areas that they aren't supposed to go.

Halo 3 uses a mix of such geometry and another solution: killing the player with an AI system called "The Guardians". In the multiplayer level Snowbound, the playing area is surrounded by indestructable turrets that will fire upon the player if they try to leave the playing field. Other levels are surrounded by bottomless pits thatthe player will die in if they fall off the edge of a level.


I tend to only use the words "hack" and "hacker" in reference to either changing a technology to fit one's own needs, or an inelegant solution to a problem.

So if I access another person's account, am I in for jail time?

Yes.

Were you even reading the text, Adrenalineflash?

Ah. Multiple jail times it is.

What if they give you the password?

remember what fringo said

hacking is getting information that other people don't want you to get


so everyone is a hacker, expecually our main man fringo, right socks.