hacker

noun

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1
as in cyberpunk
a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information the company's security experts spent days trying to figure out how a hacker could have gotten past the firewall

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2
as in kid
a person who lacks experience and competence in an art or science weekend golf hackers who are there mainly for the social networking

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“Hacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hacker. Accessed 8 Feb. 2023.

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