exploit

n : a notable achievement: "the book was her finest effort"

[syn: {deed}, {feat}, {effort}]

v 1: use to one's advantage; "He exploit the new taxation system"

2: draw from; make good use of (resources) [syn: {tap}]

3: work excessively hard [syn: {overwork}]

exploit

A security hole or an instance of taking advantage

of a security hole.

"[...] {hackers} say exploit. {sysadmin}s say hole"

-- {Mike Emke (http://emke.com/)}

Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If

this is true, this may be a case of of hackerly zero-deriving

verbs (especially instatials) from nouns, akin to "write" as a

noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a

disk.

(1997-01-31)