Anything computer related that bypass's security, in the eyes of most, is today considered a hack. The simplest, 'oh, never knew that' is today unknown by noobs. Now if ya'd like me to extract your modem cert's to pass myself off as you.. now THAT's a hack.
I have said in priv msg's I wont hack latium, it aint worth it in my eye's.. but it was fun being the first guy to kill a crypto currency.