Hacking may refer to:
- A form of the verb hack
- Computer security hacking where someone attempts to defeat or exploit the security capabilities of a computer system. In common usage hacker is generic term for a computer criminal often with a specific specialty in computer intrusion
- Hacking (taxicab), the illegal use of a personal vehicle to provide a taxicab service
- The act of joke thievery
- The name of a specific Erbherrschaft (hereditary Lordship)
- Raising a bird of prey in an artificial nest
- A term used to describe an illegal method in football where a player will 'hack' at the feet of the other player
- A feature of a mechanical watch that stops the second hand while the watch is being set. While most jurisdictions require Taxicab operators to be Licensed many unlicensed cabs are in operation A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of Public transport for a single passenger or small group of passengers typically for a non-shared ride Joke thievery is the act of performing and taking credit for comic material written by another person without their Consent. Erbherr, German for Hereditary Lord, is not only a generic description for feudal Lords whose Lordships (regardless of the title attached had officially been made hereditary Birds of prey are Birds that hunt for food primarily on the wing using their keen senses especially vision A mechanical watch is a Watch that uses a non-electric mechanism to measure the passage of time
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hacking
-noun
- (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.
-verb
- Present participle of hack.
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