Hacking, IMHO is finding something cool about a thing & then taking that something and mixing it up. Make the thing do something never intended. In this particular case a kid found that he could print to printers which were connected to the Internet and then decided to start printing to printers using what amounts to a script. This isn't hacking. It's not novel. People connect printers to the Internet and he abused those connections. This is therefore a prank, not a hack.
For a large class of cases — though not for all — in
which we employ the word meaning it can be explained
thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
---Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your ellipsis suggests to are disagreeing with the original comment, else what you wrote is just a truism. The point of the original comment was that it was authorized by default as intended by design, and thus not a "hack."
Yup. Sending a print-job to an open printing port isn't special and IMHO doesn't rise to be anything remotely close to "Hacking" or "Hacked". Everything is essentially working as designed, but just poorly implemented. It's similar to how DDoS isn't "Hacking".
