re: I wonder why nobody believes AU on the Rashaan Evans bio hack?

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except it has evolved into much more than that. Hack is used quite routinely as a workaround with tech

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Not in the corporate IT world where I work. A "workaround" is finding a technical (or process) solution to an issue with an application, site, etc. A "hack" is when someone successfully attempts to access a secured area.

That being said, it's a fine line where a misuse of a term eventually becomes its generally accepted meaning. The term "hack" among the general public means whatever people think it means. The one point at issue is whether this was the result of a bug, process error, etc. or an intentional manipulation of the site from outside.

That will be critical to determining whether the NCAA ignores this, or considers typing a sentence somewhere pointlessly documenting a minor infraction, and THEN ignoring it.