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• cracking: n. The act of breaking into a computer system
  what a {cracker} does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems....
• hacker ethic n. 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good
  and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open-source and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible....
• ocial engineering: n. Term used among {cracker}s and {samurai} for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in {wetware} rather than software
  he aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security....
• cracker n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca.
  1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q....
• ocial engineering n. Term used among crackers and samurai for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in wetware rather than software
  he aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security....
• crack root v. [very common] To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby
  ee cracking....
• exploit n. [originally cracker slang] 1. A vulnerability in software that can be used for breaking security or otherwise attacking an Internet host over the network.
  The Ping O' Death is a famous exploit. exploits an exploit in sense 1...
• lamer n. [prob. originated in skateboarder slang] 1.
  Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common among warez d00dz, crackers, and phreakers....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....