Plenty of what programmers are doing isn&#x27;t hacking. A team of top cs men making some process in google 0.1% more efficient doesn&#x27;t seem very hacky even if it results in oodles of profit. What&#x27;s more is this type of marketing is very much the result of hacker programming. Scraping social media profiles and then automatically email spamming the recipients is a system that was programmed, they aren&#x27;t manually doing it (I hope!).