anti-hacker
English edit
Adjective edit
anti-hacker (comparative more anti-hacker, superlative most anti-hacker)
- Alternative form of antihacker
- 1994, Dennis Fiery, Secrets of a Super Hacker, The Knightmare, 1994:
- The end of 1988 - November 2, to be exact -marked the beginning of a new surge in anti-hacker sentiment.
- 2004, Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization:
- But when the anti-hacker crackdown thinks of hacker pods as part of a conspiracy, it is fundamentally misrecognizing the nature of hacker groupings.
Noun edit
anti-hacker (plural anti-hackers)
- Alternative form of antihacker
- 2016, Travis L. Salisbury, Defender: A Scottish American Fairy Tale:
- Apparently an 'anti-hacker' who also plays chess was more of a temptation than someone of Vogle's unique temperament could bear.
- 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 73:
- Derby had been a revelation: people her own age who liked her (She had friends!) and a relationship (Sex! Not embarrassing!) with a funny, polite boy who had studied Computer Science and was now working as an anti-hacker for the same evil multinational corporation that he had hacked when he was a post-grad, because of course that was what happened to every good hacker — coerced to work for the devil under threat of a long jail sentence or extradition.
- One who is opposed to hacking (any sense).
- 2013, J.A. Mangan, The Cultural Bond: Sport, Empire, Society, page 115:
- Indeed anti-hackers in England in 1863 were attacked with the gibe that they objected to hacking because 'too many of the members of the clubs began late in life and were too old for that spirit of the game that was so fully entered into at the public schools and by public school men in after life'.
- 2017, Cyberspace Crime, page D.S wall:
- Both sides try to assure themselves of radical differences because they undertake similar actions. For example, Bernie Cosell was a USA commercial computer systems manager and one of the most vehement anti-hackers encountered in this study, yet he admitted that he hacked. once or twice over the years.