If you hack things together and make things work, this is a tool for doing so. Programming and micro-controllers are essential to any real hacker, so this is VERY relevant.

What?

If you hack things together to make them work, you're not buying a pre-made touchscreen display that works out of the box with an existing pre-made commercially available microcontroller with tons of third-party pre-made programs.

I majored in Computer Engineering in college and built PIC microcontroller boards as well as programmed them in Assembly. That included running little DC motors via programming (not just on/off), LCD screens, LEDs, capacitive sensors, inductive sensors, pneumatics, you name it. We'd model everything in Multisim, test out code, and then build it.

None of that is 'hacking', that's programming and engineering.

Hacking, by loose definition, is bypassing standard operation of something to exploit it.

Standard operation of a logon? Username/Password and you're authenticated.

Hacked logon? Username/Password intercepted/brute forced/anything that isn't the above.

Hacking a graphics card may allow you to run different firmware to unlock additional shaders and have it perform like a more expensive one.

Hacking an Xbox may allow you to run unsigned code and third-party games/apps.

Hacking a computer may allow you to gain elevated access.

This touch screen does absolutely nothing, literally nothing, to advance "hacking" if you want to call it hacking. You were fully able to run monitors/displays on a RaspberryPi previously, this is nothing insanely new. You could send keyboard/sensor input previously, again, nothing new. Then to top it off, there's no hacking involved. "Plug in the touch screen here and add this library to your code, yay!!"