• Question: isn't hacking a bad thing to do

    Asked by Ruby to Alistair on 11 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by savage rage.
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      Alistair McConnell answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      There are a couple of different kinds of hacking. I like to do it in the old sense where if I have an electronic system that I am not happy with how it works I hack it to make it better. So I have done this with my houses old heating control system.
      It can also mean the more popular ‘white hat’ where you look for bugs in software and report it to the company or ‘black hat’ hacking where you find bugs and exploit them (the second one is illegal).

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