crack
[warez d00dz] 1. v. To break into a system (compare cracker). 2. v. Action of removing the
copy protection from a commercial program. People who write
cracks consider themselves challenged by the copy protection
measures. They will often do it as much to show that they are
smarter than the developper who designed the copy protection
scheme than to actually copy the program. 3. n. A program,
instructions or patch used to remove the copy protection of a
program or to uncripple features from a demo/time limited
program. 4. An exploit.
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crack root v.
[very common] To defeat the security system of a Unix machine
and gain root privileges thereby; see
cracking.