6Hacking
Hack. The word is a noun, a verb, an adjective. It is a professional title and a criminal indictment and a celebration and a pejorative. It is applied to developing software, exploiting software, collecting data, manipulating social networks, working for and against companies, for and against governments, making nice things and being the reason we can’t have nice things. Obama dismissively referred to Edward Snowden as ‘some hacker’ – an outsider exfiltrating data by exploiting technology, without the moral role of the whistleblower – while his administration hosted ‘civic hackathons’ and promoted a ‘culture of hacking.’ Facebook fought the threat of ‘hacking Facebook’ (manipulating metrics or collecting information on ...
