Hacking is cool. Why the security theater industry has appropriated "hacking" to mean accessing other people's systems without authorization, I don't know.
> Indeed, the first recorded use of the word hacker in print appeared in a 1963 article in MIT’s The Tech detailing how hackers managed to illegally access the university’s telephone network.
I get what you’re saying, but I think we’re tilting at windmills. If “hacker” has a connotation of “breaking in” for 61 years now, then the descriptivist answer is to let it be.
TL;DR: Engineers from Motorola exploited a vulnerability illustrate it, and they did so in a humorous way. Within the tribe of hackers, this is pretty normal, but the only difference between that and stealing everything once the vulnerability has been exploited is intent.
Normies only hear about the ones where people steal things. They don't care about the funny kind.
If owners are able to tweak or upgrade the machine themselves, it will hurt sales of next year’s model. If “hacking” helped corporations make money they would spend billions promoting it. The old meaning of hacking has been replaced with “maker.”
Hacking is cool. Why the security theater industry has appropriated "hacking" to mean accessing other people's systems without authorization, I don't know.