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| quote: | Originally posted by electric_soul
hmm not sure. But as far as I know the term started being used in the MIT A.I. lab in the 60s as it was used in a similar fashion among teenage radio hams.
http://www.armory.com/tests/hacker.html <= good ol' hacker test 
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Love that test. 
My favourite questions:
| quote: | 0x0EF Is your job secure?
0x0F0 ... Do you have code to prove it?
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| quote: | 0x1CC Did you ever write a program that ran correctly the first time?
0x1CD ... Was it longer than 20 lines?
0x1CE ... 100 lines?
0x1CF ... Was it in assembly language?
0x1D0 ... Did it work the second time?
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Yeah, the term hacker started out at MIT to describe people who did outrageous pranks ("hacks"). Then it evolved into the programming world to talk about the programs - a quick-and-dirty program that's put together in 5 minutes is a "hack", and the hackers were the ones that wrote them.
Then it evolved into sort of a security term, people wrote hacks to test and exploit security systems. The programs were called hacks because they were 'dirty', not because they had anything to do with security. But then the god damn script kiddies got on the bandwagon and decided that downloading those programs and running them on their friends' web sites made them 31337 ]-[@x0|25. Fucking idiots. Now the term "hacker" in the media refers to any 13-year-old packet monkey with an internet connection and a lot of spare time.
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Last edited by DigiNut on Oct-26-2003 at 19:00
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