1) the hacker [telnet]'d into my system and erased my porn archive through the console
1) a text-mode environment, which, depending on the operating system, may be used locally (as is the case for most [dos] sessions) or remotely (via [ssh])
"1) the hacker [telnet]'d into my system and erased my porn archive through the console" What is the definition of "console"?