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• cracking n. [very common] 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• munching: n. Exploration of security holes of someone else's computer for thrills, notoriety, or to annoy the system manager.
  Compare {cracker}. See also {hacked off}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• amurai: n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking job
  snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith....
• 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....
• PDP-20: n. The most famous computer that never was.
  {PDP-10} computers running the {{TOPS-10}} operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11....
• iger team: [U.S. military jargon] n. 1. Originally, a team whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures.
  These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e....