Comment by maerF0x0

It feels funny to say "Hacker" when it was just someone one using something on the open internet the way it was (defacto) designed for, and just used it a lot.

Like if I crawl hackernews and download all the somethings am I a "hacker"?

To me a hack is some kind of escalation of privilege beyond what I'm truly entitled to (such as stuffing passwords, tricking software to run a payload, crafting a payload for service A so that it tricks Service B) ...

Not using curl on a loop.