cracking n.
[very common] The act of breaking into a
computer system what a cracker does. Contrary to widespread
myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of
hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged
repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit
common weaknesses in the security of target systems....
cracking: n. The act of breaking into a computer system what a
{cracker} does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not
usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but
rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly
well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of
target systems....