> Hmm... I'm somewhat bothered by how the word hacker is used in the article, where it's used to describe criminal activities.

This culture war has been going on for like three decades.

I eventually settled on just calling "hackers" phreakers. Because the people who started the whole "break into computers" meme were phreakers, and called it such at the time.

Besides, actual whistle-into-the-phone phreaking isn't possible anymore, the community eventually morphed into computer "hacking".