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exploit

(security)
A security hole or an instance of taking advantage of a security hole.

"[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole" -- Mike Emke.

Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If this is true, this may be a case 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.
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exploit

An unethical or illegal attack against a computer or network that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the operating system or application. See zero-day exploit, proof-of-concept exploit and exploit industry.
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Hence, the first person was, when entering into the impugned transaction, unable to pursue fully autonomously his or her own operative goals in, or in relation to, that transaction (as opposed to the operative goals of the person alleged to have acted exploitatively or unconscientiously).
Irrespective of the degrees of success in mirroring the colonial spaces after the metropolitan imaginary, the 1930s' assimilationist constructions of empire had found it necessary to distance Portugal from the imagery of the supreme imperial center, detached, autocratically and exploitatively decreeing over its colonial possessions.
Mita refers to systems through which the elites exploitatively forced the Indians to work for them, especially the notorious colonial practice of working the Indians to death in the silver mines.
Acceptable's conduct is arguably very different from that of a person who exploitatively surfs waves without working and relies on others' guarantee of basic income; who inconsiderately nurtures an expensive taste for which she asks society to cater; who impertinently tears up her welfare money, then demands more because her money is gone; or who recklessly refuses to insure her house against earthquake damage or to move when low-cost insurance is available and an impending earthquake is predictable for known geological reasons.
921 (2004) [hereinafter Elvis] (finding the video clips not to be fair use because in part the use was not consistently transformative, the use was exploitatively commercial, and the use likely affected the entire market for the use of the clips).
women exploitatively stripped to the waist, black artists pointedly
economy itself which remains massively dependent on the resources which it must exploitatively transfer from the rest of the world, in many different ways, to its own sphere of production and consumption.
Because coercive hierarchies concentrate wealth exploitatively, even societies that start with a spiritual spur eventually devolve into the usual corruption.
DEMOCRACY, it is now widely agreed - even if the people who agree it do tend to mean by this any regime that enables big business to trade exploitatively without getting its assets seized - is what the world needs.
to: Unsigning with abandon, or exploitatively, would cause their
Asked about affirmative action, he angrily assails Bush for dishonestly and exploitatively using the word "quotas" in attacking affirmative action programs at the University of Michigan.
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