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actually, the term hacker was orginally for developers. It came from the great minds at M.I.T.
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Sourcerer537y@AleCx04 beside from that. how do you differentiate between a developer and a hacker?
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@Sourcerer I normally don't. I geneeally follow the context in which the term is being used and just switch the meaning for whatever the person that used the term meant. So if someone is giving a pen testing tutorial and say hacker I will know what they mean. If on a talk someone says (for example) Python hacker or use phrases like "happy hacking!" where the overall context involves coding then that pretty much settles it for me.
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webdev21977yHacking is using something not the way it should work. So basically if you jump out of the window, you're a hacker.
I used to have a friend who swore that his dad worked with a gubernamental hacking agency. One day we started talking about my personal programming projects and he asked why I wouldn't say that I was a hacker and not a programmer, he believed that calling yourself a hacker was better. I explained to him that a hacker was not the same as a programmer or as a developer. We got into an argument and then I realized that if his dad truly worked in a hacking agency, he would know the difference *facepalm*
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