You will have to know the context of the sentence. In principle the hacking or hacking is or not ethical according to its intention, as any activity. Although there is an ethical hacker (or at least so proposes Eric Raymond), it has more to do with attitude than with the fact. Not to be confused with the cracking, which by definition is a crime, and a criminal ethic is more debatable.
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