Hacking may refer to:
Places
* Hacking, an area within
Hietzing
Hietzing () is the 13th Districts of Vienna, district of Vienna (). It is located west of the central districts, west of Meidling. Hietzing is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also contains large areas of the Vi ...
, Vienna, Austria
People
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David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), British barrister and peer
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Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (1884–1950), British Conservative politician
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Ian Hacking
Ian MacDougall Hacking (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, ...
(1936–2023), Canadian philosopher of science
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Philip Hacking (1931–2024), English Anglican priest, and itinerant evangelical speaker
Sports
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Hacking (falconry), the practice of raising falcons in captivity then later releasing into the wild
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Hacking (rugby), tripping an opposing player
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Pleasure riding, horseback riding for purely recreational purposes, also called hacking
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Shin-kicking, an English martial art also called hacking
Technology
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Hacker
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals and solves problems by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hackersomeone with knowledge of bug (computing), bugs or exp ...
, a computer expert with advanced technical knowledge
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Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy—often in collective effort—the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of software systems or electronic hardware (mostly digital electronics), ...
, activity within the computer programmer subculture
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Security hacker
A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching or bypassing defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, pro ...
, someone who breaches defenses in a computer system
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Cybercrime
Cybercrime encompasses a wide range of criminal activities that are carried out using digital devices and/or Computer network, networks. It has been variously defined as "a crime committed on a computer network, especially the Internet"; Cyberc ...
, which involves security hacking
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Phone hacking
Phone hacking is the practice of exploring a mobile device, often using computer exploits to analyze everything from the lowest memory and CPU levels up to the highest file system and process levels. Modern open source tooling has become f ...
, gaining unauthorized access to phones
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ROM hacking
ROM hacking is the process of Modding, modifying a ROM image, ROM image or ROM file to alter the contents contained within, usually of a video game to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, Level (video games), levels, gameplay, and/or other elemen ...
, the process of modifying a video game's program image
Other uses
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Roof and tunnel hacking
Roof and tunnel hacking is the unauthorized exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces. The term carries a strong collegiate connotation, stemming from its use at MIT and at the U.S. Naval Academy, where the practice has a long history ...
, unauthorized exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces
See also
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Hack (disambiguation)
Hack may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Games
* ''Hack'' (Unix video game), a 1984 roguelike video game
* ''.hack'' (video game series), a series of video games by the multimedia franchise ''.hack''
Music
* ''Hack'' (album), a 199 ...
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Hacker (disambiguation)
A hacker is a highly skilled computer expert, including:
* Security hacker, someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network
Hacker may also refer to:
Computing and technology
* Hacker culture
The hacker c ...
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Hacks (disambiguation)
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List of hacker groups
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