Hacking License

Yesterday I saw the first "Hacking License" I've ever seen. It didn't belong to someone licensed to break into computers. Instead, it was on display on the dashboard of a Virginia Yellow Cab.

The cabbie explained to me that the "Hacking License" is something that came from England where driving around looking for fares apparently was once called (or maybe still is called) hacking.

Being a former cabbie, I guess that makes me an ex-hacker :-) (I was a cabbie in Haarlem/Amsterdam/Schiphol during my college years.)