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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 may also refer to:

Computing and technology

• Hacker culture, a computer programmer and security hacker subculture focused on intellectual and creative aspects of hacking
• HackerNest, a nonprofit organization and movement that builds local technology communities worldwide

People

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

Fictional characters

• Hacker, cyborg sidekick character in TV series The Centurions
• Hacker T. Dog, puppet character on Scoop and CBBC links
• Hacker Republic, Lisbeth Salander aka Wasp, Plague, and Trinity, hacker friends and colleagues in the series which includes The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
• 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.
• The Nameless Hacker, the main protagonist of the game System Shock (1994)
• The Hacker, a character on the US TV series Cyberchase

Films and television

Games

Literature

Music

Brands and enterprises

See also

Topics referred to by the same term