I argue, No. The point of hacking has nothing to do with bugs. It has to do with exploits. You can exploit either a purposefully designed in feature *or* an accidentally built in bug.
We can put sensitivity analysis and stress testing on a spectrum *with* hacking. Penetration testing is on that spectrum, bridging between hacking and using the device as intended. As for the word, itself, I tend to use "hack" to mean anything *playful* and "crack" as the exploitation for personal gain. So while a white hat hacker tries to find exploits, a black hat "hacker" tries to crack the device for exploit/profit. But to each her own. It's not the word that's important. It's the concept and the behavior. On 11/29/21 9:19 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > Isn't the *point* of hacking to discover ways to use "bugs" of an > intentionally designed system *as* "features", often in combination with > other bugs/features? Maybe *I* impute too much into the idea of "hacking"? > (does one impute *into* or *onto* BTW?) > > I admit, when I follow clickbait with "hack" in the title sometimes the > target of the hack is a system *not* designed/built by humans with intentions > which the "hack" is overcoming/circumventing/re-tasking... but I don't think > of that as a "hack" as much as "thoughtful understanding". The vernacular > use of "hack" seems overly broad to me. > > I suppose the character of Sherlock Holmes is characterized by the overlap of > these two abilities (encyclopedic knowledge of human-built and natural > systems, along with an acute analytic ability to deduce and infer and and a > similar acute ability to synthesize disparate elements of those systems to > achieve a specific purpose)? Though I suppose the latter is more in the > domain of the Archetype "McGuyver", leaving Sherlock more to the domain of > engineering *humans* to admit to or demonstrate their culpability in > something or another. McGuyver seems to be intent on breaking or remaking > things to fulfill his own current desire. -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
