True, but the word has been reclaimed more than I thought it would be when I first read some screed (ESR?) on the difference between the two.  Remember the breathless news reports in the late 90s showing green on black websites of "hacker groups"?  It's only natural that the word Hacker has these connotations since the first crackers were hackers.  Now people talk about this or that hack without worrying that they'll be arrested or kicked out of school.