On 2019-12-08 20:34, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 12/8/19 11:47 AM, RobH wrote:
Err, excuse me, I was not attempting to hack into someone else's code.
As the code is in the public domain, I wanted it to work as is, like it
did for the author, without changing anything.
No worries, you're totally fine. The word "hack" means something
different. To hack means to work on, learn, modify, etc. It's a
positive word in this context. I was hacking on python code myself
yesterday.
The word for breaking into a system or program is/was "crack", like in
"safe-cracking". In common parlance, however, people have picked up the
word "hack" instead, which, as Michael says, means something else.
It's a lot like the misuse of the word "theory".
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