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Re:Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack by rossdavidh on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:17PM (#29040281)
One definition of "hack", close to the earliest sense of the word, is "to use something in a way it was not intended when it was made". This was definitely not the way the creators of the platform intended it to be used.

Whether it qualifies underall all common senses of "hack" is debatable, but it at least qualifies under a common sense of the word.

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Re:Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack by newacc9 on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:46PM (#29040688)
pg has a whole article about the word.

"Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike) and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative (discarding Euclidean space)."

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