Most of these devices contain field-programmable components which can be located and accessed by knowledgeable hardware hackers.

But then again... I consider myself a hardware hacker.

For a self-proclaimed "hardware hacker" you seem to be missing out on some details about the hardware you're discussing.

A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware.

It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no one knows who).

It gives some insight of the psychology of hardware hackers.

Arcangel Constantini, contemporary artist,hardware hacker working with science and technology .

For many years, the more enterprising of Silicon Valley's hardware hackers have built their own experimental wireless systems.

Woz or Steve Wozniak was a hardware hacker since high school.

The Third Generation consisted of hackers who had much more access to computers than the former hardware hackers.