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Hacker may refer to:
- Hack (disambiguation): a hacker is one who hacks.
Innovation
- Hacker (computing), a contentious term used for several types of person:
- Hacker (computer security) or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system
- Hacker (programmer subculture), who shares an anti-authoritarian approach to software development now associated with the free software movement
- Hacker (hobbyist), who makes innovative customizations or combinations of retail electronic and computer equipment
Analogous meanings in other fields are:
- Media hacker, innovative user of digital media
- Wetware hacker, who experiments with biological materials
- Reality hacking, activism through legally dubious disruption of digital media
