Concept information
Preferred term
hacking
Definition
- Computer hacking involves the manipulation of computer software and hardware or other technologies with criminal or noncriminal intent. Hacking is a phenomenon that has grown in prominence over the past 30 years with the increasing societal dependence on technology for all facets of life. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Deviance; Hacking]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- CommuniTree
- Computer Emergency Response Team
- copyleft
- cyberculture
- cyberethics
- cyberwarfare
- decss
- electronic civil disobedience
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- encryption and cryptography
- Eric Raymond
- hacking, cracking, and phreaking
- hacktivism
- John Perry Barlow
- Mitchell Kapor
- Richard Stallman
- security
- The New Hacker's Dictionary
- virus
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/hacking
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