"Douglas Day is a member of the Hacker Advisory Board at HackerOne and a full-time professional hacker. His membership of the Hacker Advisory Board is voluntary and unpaid, but more than 95% of his income comes from bug bounty hacking. The rest comes from the occasional contracted pen testing and red teaming."
"My definition of a hacker is somebody who uses a system in a way that was not intended by its designers. Most of the time, when people talk about hacking, they mean computer hacking. In this case, a hacker is a person who uses a computer application or website in a way that it was never intended to be used."
"But he stresses, you don't need to hack computers to be a hacker. "You can also be a hacker in the wider sense. Somebody who opens a lock with a pencil is hacking both the lock and the pencil." The pencil was never designed to open a lock, and the lock was never designed to be opened by a pencil. Same with a broken table. "If you've ever jury-rigged a broken table by bolting on an extension to the leg, you're hacking the table and the extension." These concepts map easily to computer hacking. The lock is a malfunctioning system, preventing its legitimate users doing what they need to do. The pencil is a hacking tool. The broken table is also a malfunctioning system, and the extension is a hack designed to fix it."
Douglas Day serves on the Hacker Advisory Board at HackerOne and earns most of his income as a full-time professional hacker, primarily through bug bounty programs, with occasional contracted pen testing and red teaming. Day defines a hacker as someone who uses a system in a way not intended by its designers, usually referring to computer applications and websites. He emphasizes that hacking extends beyond computers, using everyday examples such as opening a lock with a pencil or jury-rigging a broken table to illustrate how tools and systems can be repurposed to solve problems.
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