>4) a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system

>This is the last one because it is the least accurate and has been created only in recent times by the media.

By recent times, you mean since the mid/late 80's when hacking sort of got known in the mainstream after phreaking?

>"Anyone that takes a look at a goal and a given set of resources then figures out an unconventional way to achieve that goal"

I want to be rich! therefore I choose to rob a bank (my unconventional way of achieving that goal), does that make me a hacker too? (Like a bank hacker)

Awesome article nonetheless!