exploit
<security> A security hole or an instance of taking advantage
of a security hole.
"[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole"
-- Mike Emke (
http://emke.com/)
Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If
this is true, this may be a case of of hackerly zero-deriving
verbs (especially instantials) from nouns, akin to "write" as
a noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a
disk.
(2001-11-24)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2003 Denis Howe
edit: også fannt jeg dette og.
exploit
n. [originally cracker slang] 1. A vulnerability in
software that can be used for breaking security or otherwise
attacking an Internet host over the network. The Ping O' Death is
a famous exploit. 2. More grammatically, a program that exploits an
exploit in sense 1,