Comment by dspillett

> It sets a bad precedent to call things like this hacks.

That ship sailed a long time ago. The “phone hacking scandal” in ~2010¹ was mostly calling answering services that didn't have pins or other authorisation checks set.

These days any old trick gets called a hack, heck tying your shoelaces might get called a miraculous footwear securing hack.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...