Hacker

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Contents 1 Innovation 2 Entertainment 3 People named Hacker 3.1 Real 3.2 Fictional 4 Other

Hacker may refer to:

• Hack (disambiguation): a hacker is one who hacks.

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

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 film

People named Hacker

Real

• 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

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)

Other

• Hacker Brewery, since 1972 merged into Hacker-Pschorr Brewery, and its beer

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