José Antonio Rey has bring an interesting question to our chat, that was relay from Linda Besh, I think (correct me...

José Antonio Rey has bring an interesting question to our chat, that was relay from Linda Besh, I think (correct me if i'm wrong),
Why to the act of getting items from the portal is called Hacking?
I think that the origin of the question come from the fact that nowadays, when you speak about hacking you are normally referring to computer, so I can be difficult to picture how you can hack a portal or why that name was chosen.

Truth is that you can hack any network, computerized or not. For example:
Roof and tunnel hacking, is the unauthorized exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces.

You can also hack a cable signal if you open it and pin to it another cable that would deviate the signal to the place you choose.

On that context, what you are doing when you hack a portal is acceding the portal network and deviating resources from the network to your own scanner.

Another question, taking into account that the work hacking is normally used to enter a network without permission is:
Should we have access to the portal network?
Iif we shouldn't, is everything that has happened since the scanner was released, a consequence of our illegal access to it?

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