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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. Accordingly, most crackers are incompetent as hackers. This
entry used to say 'mediocre', but the spread of
rootkit and other automated cracking has
depressed the average level of skill among crackers.
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