It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied ashacking, but I think what these activities have in common isplayfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking meansexploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playfulcleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hackvalue".
Hackers typically had little respect for the silly rules thatadministrators like to impose, so they looked for ways around. Forinstance, when computers at MIT started to have "security" (that is,restrictions on what users c...[ 查看全文 ]