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Before I say anything else, I should say that I no longer work for LinkedIn - I left LinkedIn on good terms in May 2012. Whatever I say here represents my own personal view only, and does not represent the view of my former employer.
Firstly, I think the suit - Perkins v. LinkedIn Corp., 13-cv-04303, exploiting an understandably common fear of digital privacy invasion, is baseless. I am confident that after the dust settles, and clearer heads have a chance to examine the claims and all relevant evidence, it will be dismissed and LinkedIn proved innocent.
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I must point out that the word “hack” has more than one meaning in the high tech context.
The lawsuit and article seem to assume that “hacking” means “gaining unauthorized access to other people’s system and data.”
Among software engineers, the word “hack” carries another less nefarious meaning: clever and skillful programming. See some of the definitions in Wiktionary’s entry. Hacking in this sense often carries a humble, self-deprecating tone of done-fast-and-on-the-cheap, using shortcuts. A “good hack”, in this context, exhibits a certain poetic aesthetic and showcases technical wizardry.
This usage is the one I meant in my own job description. It is so popular among technologists that many others use it in their profile too. A casual search on LinkedIn or any other internet people search engine with the keyword “hacker” will bring up thousands of engineers and designers, currently “hacking” at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, e.t.c.
This positive “hacking” spirit is so celebrated that these highly respected and successful companies frequently host events called “Hack-Days” or “Hack-a-thons”, where engineers get together to compete at coming up with cool and innovative technical solutions and product ideas, often as cheaply as possible, and sometimes done for laughs - but no unauthorized “break-ins” were ever conducted at such events!
This use of the word “hack” is prevalent. The prominent high tech venture capital company Y-Combinator runs a popular blog call “Hacker News”, a co-working and learning space for technologist in Silicon Valley calls itself “Hacker Dojo”, thousands of open source software projects hosted on GitHub use the H-word in their project descriptions, and many successful fund raising campaigns on KickStarter use it to describe all kinds of widgets… Facebook even purposely named their headquarter address to be “1 Hacker Way”!
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Now that I have explained myself... Peace out.
- Brian Guan, hacker, the good kind.
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