Yeah. It is less of a “roots” definition of hacker and more of a “how can I hack the system to get rich with technology”.

>To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants—whether the computer wants to or not. [0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html