Tak hackeri jsou prave ti vedci, kteri nasli problem a upozornili na nej, i kdyz zde ho nemuzou sami fixnout. To, co mate na mysli, by se dalo nazvat napriklad slovem utocnik.
"The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal. But then, it is supposed, the meaning of the term shifted over the decades since it first came into use in a computer context and came to refer to computer criminals."