Hacker
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Hacker may refer to:
- Hack (disambiguation): a hacker is one who hacks.
- Hacker-Craft: Boats made by the Hacker Boat Company
[edit] Innovation
- Hacker (computing), a contentious term used for several types of person:
- Hacker (computer security) or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system
- Hacker (programmer subculture), who shares an anti-authoritarian approach to software development now associated with the free software movement
- Hacker (hobbyist), who makes innovative customizations or combinations of retail electronic and computer equipment
Analogous meanings in other fields are:
- Media hacker, innovative user of digital media
- Wetware hacker, who experiments with biological materials
- Reality hacking, activism through legally dubious disruption of digital media
[edit] Entertainment
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, 1984 book by Steven Levy
- Hacker (video game), 1985 computer game by Activision
- Hacker (card game), 1992 Steve Jackson Games release
- Hackers (film), 1995 MGM film starring Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller
[edit] People named Hacker
[edit] Real (surname)
- John L. Hacker, (1877-1961) pre-eminent 20th century American naval architect
- Raymond Joseph Smith |[HavikRyan]|
- The Hacker (Michel Amato, b. 1972), French electroclash and techno producer
- Alan Hacker (b. 1938), English clarinetist
- Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935-2003), U.S. Naval officer
- George Hacker (20th century), U.S. lawyer, head of the Alcohol Policies Project
- Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942), American poet, critic, and reviewer
- Peter Hacker (b. 1939), British philosopher
- Sally Hacker (1936–1988), feminist sociologist
- Mohit Hacker(1988---),India hacker
- Frantisek Hacker (b. 1979), Czech embedded & telecommunication engineer
[edit] Fictional
- J. Random Hacker, the mythical/archetypal hacker nerd
- Jim Hacker, title character in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
- Hacker, villain of the TV series Cyberchase
- Staff Sergeant Hacker, character on the TV series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- Hacker, cyborg sidekick character in The Centurions (TV series)
[edit] Other
- Hacker Brewery, since 1972 merged into Hacker-Pschorr Brewery, and its beer
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