When I say hackers, I don’t mean criminals. There has been a lot of confusion surrounding this terminology, ever since the mass media started reporting computer break-ins. Originally, it was a compliment applied to technically adept computer programmers and system administrators. If you had a problem with your system and you needed it fixed quickly, you got your best hacker on the job.They might “hack up” the source code to fix things, because they knew the big picture.While other people may know how different parts of the system work, hackers have the big picture in mind while working on the smallest details.This perspective gives them great flexibility when approaching a problem, because they don’t expect the first thing that they try to work.
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