In the 1960s the term "hacking" meant smart people developing useful and innovative computer software.� In the 1990s the term meant smart evil people developing and running programs to break into computer systems and gain shell access to those systems.� Thanks to Harvard Business school the term now means "people of average IQ poking around curiously by editing URLs on public servers and seeing what comes back in the form of directory listings, etc."
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Business schools redefine hacking to "stuff that a 7-year-old could do"
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