👉 #Hackers had been warning about IoT (in)security for years.
👉 Hackers had been raising alarm about phone network insecurity for almost two decades.
👉 Hackers had been insisting, since 1990's, that any entity that gathers personal information protects it well.
But sure, blame everything on hackers:
- "hackers break into <some IoT boondoggle>"
- "hackers abuse SMS to break into <a service>"
- "hackers leak <some entity's ridiculously badly protected> data." 🤦♀️
Because clicks must flow. 🙄
In other words, people who had been warning about all these dangers are being summarily blamed for them whenever they materialize. 
In case you're wondering why information security continues to be a dumpster fire. That's one of the reasons.
And every time you say "hacker" when you mean "cybercriminal", or when you say "hack" instead of "break-in" or "compromise", you contribute to this. 
Trust me, your audience can understand these other terms. I know, I write myself.
What meaning would you want media to ascribe to the verb "hack" (if any)? (Interesting test examples: jailbreaking a phone, using undocumented interfaces to a ticket machine to make it faster to tell it what ticket you want, pretending to be a public transit bus for traffic lights to cause them to change out of schedule, making meringues out of byproduct of chickpeas.)
@robryk @rysiek
The correct way to describe that would be that you "break-in" to the chickpeas. Obviously.
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