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 #+title: Hacking
+#+summary: A simple description of what hacking is really about
+#+license: bysa
 
 * Hacking
 
-** My definition
+He's a *hacker*! Oh no, the pirate's going to *hack* our computer! And our mobile
+phones! And our TV! Run for your lives! He'll use our credit cards to *hack*
+even more! He might even *hack* our fridge!
 
+That's not a hacker. That's an evil person. Hackers are not evil. Hackers are
+curious people. The evil person described above can be called a /cracker/
+instead. Such a person can be said to /crack/ computers and mobile phones, not
+hack them. Hacking is very different.
 
+*Hacking* is the act of creating new ways to use objects with well-defined
+uses. It's about experimenting, being clever, and playing. Hacking does not
+have to result in something useful, though it sometimes does in the long
+run. It's about the present.
 
+When you've hacked something, you've created a *hack*. It can happen
+spontaneously, or it can happen because you want it to happen.
 
-** Other definitions
+Once, I was eating a pizza in a restaurant with a group of friends when one of
+my friends couldn't eat anymore of his hummus. I had one slice of pizza back,
+and he had a little hummus back. I realized then that I could /combine/ the
+pizza and the hummus, and tada: I ate a hummus pizza slice (which was good, by
+the way); i created a hack.
 
+Much more clever hacks have been created, but the hummus pizza example should
+serve as a simple example of what a real-life hack /could/ be --- a hack can be
+so many things.
+
+Hacking is often associated with software development, because that's often
+about finding clever solutions and being open for new ways to do things.
+
+** "Just stop it already. You've lost."
+
+One could argue that the hacking community should just accept that the media
+and the non-hacker part of the public have long ago changed the meaning of
+hacker to "person who breaks digital security", and that hackers should just
+find another word to describe themselves. But if we did that, all the history
+associated with hacking would fade as new generations came along.
+
+** External links
+
++ [[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html][The Jargon File: hacker]]
++ [[http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html][stallman.org: On Hacking]]