Hacker
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A hacker is someone who likes to do new things with computers.
One wrong meaning of the word hacker is "someone who tries to get into another person's computer, or tries to make computer programs or software that can hurt other people's computers". The correct meaning for this is cracker, but many news stories use hacker even though it is wrong.
Some people called hackers have made trojan horse programs, computer viruses, or computer worms that can hurt other people's computers.
The older meaning of the word hacker is "someone who knows a lot about computers, and likes to do new and different or hard-to-do things with them". This meaning of the word hacker is usually a compliment.
