title: Hacking
text: # Hacking
  
  Hacking may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Hacking, an area within Hietzing, Vienna, Austria
  
  ## People
  
  * Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (1884–1950), British Conservative politician
  * Ian Hacking (1936–2023), Canadian philosopher of science
  * David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), British barrister and peer
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Hacking (falconry), the practice of raising falcons in captivity then later releasing into the wild
  * Hacking (rugby), tripping an opposing player
  * Pleasure riding, horseback riding for purely recreational purposes, also called hacking
  * Shin-kicking, an English martial art also called hacking
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Hacker, a computer expert with advanced technical knowledge
     * Hacker culture, activity within the computer programmer subculture
  * Security hacker, someone who breaches defenses in a computer system
     * Cybercrime, which involves security hacking
  * Phone hacking, gaining unauthorized access to phones
  * ROM hacking, the process of modifying a video game's program image
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Roof and tunnel hacking, unauthorized exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces
  