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. Accordingly, most crackers are
only mediocre hackers.
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