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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cracking</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cracker.html" title="cracker"/><link rel="next" href="crank.html" title="crank"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cracking</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cracker.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="crank.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cracking"/><dt xmlns="" id="cracking"><b>cracking</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] The act of breaking into a computer system; what a
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<a href="cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a> does. Contrary to widespread myth, this
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does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but
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rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly
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well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target
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systems. Accordingly, most crackers are incompetent as hackers. This
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entry used to say 'mediocre', but the spread of
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<a href="../R/rootkit.html"><i class="glossterm">rootkit</i></a> and other automated cracking has
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depressed the average level of skill among crackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cracker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="crank.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cracker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> crank</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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