Right here right now Fatboy Slim <| sep |> how come you stopped when it was good ? <| sep |> What is a real hacker ? I ' ve been working on this field for about 20 years , did my undergrad and grad study in computer science and systems security . A hacker is simply someone who exploits your vulnerability . Most , and I mean almost every , hacker , uses the work of others and finds one way or another to implement the work . Some , even many , don ' t even design the implementation , rather they copy or implement according to some one else ' s creativity . Most of the hacking work that we see on Mr Robot is using the work of others , the tools and 1000 s of hours of other ' s development . But it ' s all hacking . Maybe the question should be are they all developers ? We probably don ' t have enough time with them to know that yet . Just my opinion .