---
id: 3144
title: "How Hackers Define “Hacker”"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/how-hackers-define-hacker"
published_at: "2019-04-04T16:00:00Z"
tags: ["community", "survey", "hackerone", "hacker-culture", "definition", "semantics"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3144"
lang: en
---

# How Hackers Define “Hacker”

## Summary

Dictionaries frame hackers as criminals, but 70% of surveyed IT pros say Cambridge should drop 'illegally'; across 40 hacker interviews, challenge and understand dominated and illegal never came up.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2019-04-04T16:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/how-hackers-define-hacker
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3144