Hacking is the desire to fully understand something... now your reasons can be well .... at any rate... theres lots of ways to hack some have nothing to do with online stuff... and not everybody has this fashion holllywood attitude about it.

I enjoy hacking, i've been doing it since 1994, and you know each one of us has a certain peculiar way of doing things, like the kid thats making a spaceship from card board boxes , the goth lady making bracelets, the average joe that one day feeels creative and wants to express himself ... its all artistic its all an expression of our own creativity even if its not wining any trophys if your own enjoyment and satisfaction.. its all we need, and we should not be judgemental about this things, life is lived bettter that way ... what can i gain of telling the kid ; thats not a space ship thats a pile of trash ... or the lady hey your wasteing your time doing cheap julery crap that noones going to buy lol ... or the average joe , man your truly bad at doing whatever your doing ... pfff , even if thats a very accurate analysis it helps no one . Thats regarding the art part now the core reason of haking is curiosity taken to a point were creativity is used to obtain clarity cause a dead end its just not an option...so a clever use of existing information, cause we are talking about stuff that alrready exists.. to reveal the whats behind ; is hacking, use knolege and information to gain more knolege and information .. like everithing its al beyond goood and evil and its all a question of the bounderies you chooose to give yourself ... but thats apart from the pure motivation that drives the action .