The term itself comes from model train clubs who would cut up old sets of track to make new pieces IIRC
The idea of a "hacker" being a malicious coder is sort of a product of 90s movies, it really originally meant people who would fuck around with whatever they were interacting with and was really a lot closer to an experimental DIY punk ethos than anything else. Sort of natural that those types would move into pentesting.
People always picture hackers as like super intelligent programmers and shit when the reality is closer to what you'd expect from the actual word, just some people with the digital equivalent of hacksaws using them on everything they can and seeing what happens.
The term itself comes from model train clubs who would cut up old sets of track to make new pieces IIRC
The idea of a "hacker" being a malicious coder is sort of a product of 90s movies, it really originally meant people who would fuck around with whatever they were interacting with and was really a lot closer to an experimental DIY punk ethos than anything else. Sort of natural that those types would move into pentesting.
People always picture hackers as like super intelligent programmers and shit when the reality is closer to what you'd expect from the actual word, just some people with the digital equivalent of hacksaws using them on everything they can and seeing what happens.