I have noticed this being mentioned more in the government media lately.

Taking either the original definition of hacker or the newer derogatory term for hacker, Satoshi does not fit either.

He wrote a computer program on his own computer and then released it to the world.

The original term for hacker referred to someone who would go into other people's computer systems to check things out and discover things that other people were doing, even hacking into a software program to see what it does and change things to learn more about it.

The new media term refers to people who break through security of other people's computer systems and cause mischief.

Satoshi was neither.

Am I to be considered a hacker because I write computer programs for my company?