alt Hacker News"hack" on hackernews essentially means "I used my computer to do something". The overwhelming population of people here aren't security engineers, but rather developers.
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serioussecurity • today at 1:33 AM
Hack as a term predates the concept of cyber security. It was originally "a quick and dirty solution that is clever"
nullsanity • today at 1:12 AM
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I considered that, but the mentions of pwn2own and the bug bounty program have me thinking "hack" is used in the security/mainstream sense.