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I have to say I'm not wild about saying we're "hacking" degrees. Makes it sound like we're cheating and not actually earning them.

I thought hacking meant coming up with a better/faster way to do things.  I mean, there are bad hackers, but there are also ethical or red hat hackers.

The term hacker has historically been a divisive one, sometimes being used as a term of admiration for individuals who exhibit a high degree of skill and creativity in their approach to technical problems. However, the term is also commonly applied to individuals who use this skill for illegal or unethical purposes.

Hacker was first used in the 1960s to describe a programmer or an individual who, in an era of highly constrained computer capabilities, could increase the efficiency of computer code in a way that removed, or hacked, excess machine code instructions from a program. It has evolved over the years to refer to someone with an advanced understanding of computers, networking, programming or hardware.