> According to Olkkonen, the light board has been broken into. It is not a hacking incident.
> – It was clear what had been done. The media player's cord had been ripped out and its own content had been played.
To me, it's more an act of vandalism than hacking.
Hacking in the way presented in the article is vandalism. A door being unlocked isn’t permission to enter. A lock with a flaw doesn’t mean it can be removed.
For the earliest hackers, it was all about puzzles.
In addition to computers, other common obsessions were lockpicking (mechanical computing), model railroads (electricity + switches + relays), and Chinese food menus (language skills).
The plains have been settled, the pioneers are all dead.
I still use the old form and don’t mind too much if anyone gets the wrong idea. It’s a good way to find other like-minded people.