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[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I have to disagree. Hacking is a broad term that isn't exclusive to finding buffer overflows in ghidra.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Social engineering is hacking. This is something between SE and prompt engineering.

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[–] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago

I know hacking more as using a system in a way that is not intended, which this definitly is

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I was watching a speedrunner live stream, and just the way he thinks...

The way speedrunners think is basically how pentesters think.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago*

The original meaning of the word "hacking" is just "to get something to work in a way it was not meant to work".

So the hacker mindset of finding workarounds or unforseen scenarios applies to a lot of things, not just devices and systems (such as games) but also human processes.

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