I was gonna say, we use hacking as a term for a lot of things, even is something like cracking is more accurate. It is like Clip vs Mag in firearms…when you say clip EVERYONE knows what you are talking about.
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sudneo@lemm.ee 5 months agoI am a security professional. I would personally not care less to make the distinction, as both are very generic terms that are used very liberally in the industry.
So I don’t see any reason not to call this hacking. This was not an intended feature. It was a gap, which has been used to perform things that the application writer did not intended (not in this form). If fits with the definition of hacking as far as I can tell. In any case, this is not an academic discussion, it is a security advisory or an article that talks about it.
Freefall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
NateNate60@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not someone who works on the practical side of security, but as a computer scientist, I do not agree that it is “hacking”. That contradicts my understanding of “hack” versus other types of exploits, but you are correct that the distinction is generally not that important. A security problem is a security problem regardless what it’s called