Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for April 29, 2014
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Transcript:
verne: Gasp! larry's a black hat hacker! mouse: We prefer the term "insecurity expert"... verne: That's actually kind of clever. rj: until he hacks your instagram account. AHHHHHH!!
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Comes from hackney carriages, used as taxis in horse-and-buggy days, horrible working conditions for both man and horse. So a person who works long hours at something tedious and meaningless became a “hack”, and “hacker” came to be used to refer to a computer programmer who so loved programming that he was almost exclusively focused on programming for long hours. Then it finally morphed into the negative connotation that it has now.