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		edgyquant on Sept 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ ... Legally speaking in the US “hack” generally means using any computer system you weren’t given access to. So yes this is legally a hack in the way it’s used by the media, it’s also a hack of in the normal since of the word regardless.

ksaj on Oct 2, 2022 [–]

It's literally only the media, and not the law enforcement, that use the term "hack." The word "hack" probably doesn't even exist in any criminal code.

Law enforcement use phrases like "unlawful access to a protected system" and whatnot.

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