Hacker (disambiguation)

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A hacker is a highly skilled computer expert, including:

• Security hacker, someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network
• Hacker culture, a subculture focusing on intellectual and creative aspects of hacking

People

• Hacker (surname), includes a list of people with the name
• Michael Amato or The Hacker (born 1972), French electrocrash and tech producer

Art, media, and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Hacker, cyborg sidekick character in TV series The Centurions
• Hacker T. Dog, puppet character on Scoop and CBBC links
• Jim Hacker, title character in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
• Staff Sergeant Hacker, a character on the US TV series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
• Plague and Trinity, two of Lisbeth Salander's hacker friends and colleagues in the Hacker Republic, e.g., see The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest#Trial
• Lisbeth Salander is an expert hacker in the Millennium series; her hacker handle, "Wasp" is also her kickboxing ringname, and she has a wasp tattoo on her neck
• The Hacker, villain of the TV series Cyberchase
• The Nameless Hacker, the main protagonist of the 1994 game System Shock

Films

(Chronological)

• Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1985), a video documentary inspired by Stephen Levy's 1984 book
• Hackers (film), 1995 MGM film starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie

Games

• Hacker (card game), 1992 Steve Jackson Games release
• Hacker (video game), 1985 puzzle/strategy computer game by Activision
• Hackers (video game), 2016 strategy video game by Trickster Arts

Literature

• Hacker, a children's novel by Malorie Blackman
• Hackers (anthology), a 1996 anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984), a book by Stephen Levy

Music

• "The Hacker", a song by British industrial group Clock DVA

Brands and enterprises

• Hacker Brewery, and its beer, since 1972 merged into Hacker-Pschorr Brewery
• Hacker-Craft, boats made by the Hacker Boat Company
• Hacker Radio Ltd, a British manufacturer of consumer electronics products

Organizations

• HackerNest, a nonprofit organization and movement that builds local technology communities worldwide

See also

• All pages with titles containing Hacker (disambiguation)
• Hack (disambiguation)
• Hacking (disambiguation)
• Hacks (disambiguation)
• Haka (disambiguation)
• Hakka (disambiguation)