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**Spirit** · 05-15-2008, 06:48 PM

Oh, they were not referring to the paypal as hacking. They wee referring to the altering of Fiesta files to change cooldown times as hacking.

EDIT: also, I found were I posted this in another thread a while back.

"Hacker has several common meanings, the unifying characteristic of which is only that it refers to a person who is an avid computer enthusiast. It is most commonly used as a pejorative by the mass media to refer to a person who engages in illegal computer trespass remotely via some sort of communications network (i.e. the Internet, a LAN or a dial-up network), its original meaning referred to an unauthorized user of the telephone company network (now called a Phreaker) but it can also refer to people engaged in ethical computer hacking (i.e. debugging or improving software functionality), to the members of the open source and free software community, or to home computer hobbyists."

It is a more commonly used phrase than what it started out as and has new meanings also.

05-15-2008, 06:48 PM	#2
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