'Hackers' is a term of multifarious connotations, yet there is no doubt that 'one who hacks' is a ranger in that rangeland. Is this like 'cutting the mustard'? 'Making the grade'...or degrading the road in general...so that up or down isn't as much a factor as loopings, arcs, and angles of approach, time of day, Dodge County or not, whether there's gold in a roadside bombshell ...blonde?
Then there are things that get hacked to pieces...or maybe you can finally pick-up that layaway item.
My point is the hacker is employed nowadays and is the cornerstone of our info-datum-jamboree for ad or sale! You'll be amazed at how much you will pay who has the most advanced virus! They name sports stadiums after them now! Some people are brands, some get branded, and some are branding irons. Nothing happens until the hacker screws everything up and the solution is a pay check. Ask and/or Gates. I thought the brand point was not to lose cows?
Maybe I will learn from the other anwsers. Maybe other answers will learn from me learning from answers other than what I refered to as other answers, originally:other anwsers. That is a simple thing to start hacking with, but try to continue explaining how to be a bigger hog and although you should surely succeed in conversation, you will communicate very little other than the perceived bleeding body of net-work inching along with no one to get pity from or to give it to...but for your own bogging mesh-stick computed grudge.
'A straight line is the shortest distance between two points' may have a 43 page mathematical proof to legally verify the validity of that declarative statement. Walking that line on the network of networks could allow a good hacker to suggest to 4.2 million people that they should think of buying a Pontiac when the message that get's delivered to point #2 of 2 is "Buy a Buick". Bu(y a ick). Who a Ford drives can't hack. ?
Loyality to people depends upon people and not the same people, both sharing loyalty. It just doesn't hack out for anyone. It hacks in.