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This trope only counts when everyone thinks it's a boy and it's later revealed the hacker is a female. It is not a list of generalized female hackers.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Miho from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' caused a massive crash of the ''Endgames'' MMORPG servers and asks Piro if he was surprised to learn the aforementioned hacker was a girl.
* ''[http://www.planetheidi.com/ Heidi, Geek Girl Detective]'' starts with a
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
* This is [[Truth in Television]] for most female programmers and computer technicians (whether they fit the general usage of "hacker" or not), since it's very much a male-dominated profession. In reality a significant percentage of digital intrusions are accomplished through social trickery (like posing as tech support and asking for passwords) which pretty women are noted to be particularly adept at.
** That said the [[Ur Example]] would be Ada Countess of Lovelace; who wrote a series of instructions that could have been executed by Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (which would have been a [[Steampunk]] computer, were it built) and is often considered the world's first computer programmer (in the sense she wrote the world's first computer program).
** The techs who maintained the world's first computer ([[wikipedia:Colossus computer|Colossus]]) were mostly women from the Women's Royal Navy (or "Wrens").
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