exploited

adj 1: developed or used to greatest advantage [ant: {unexploited}]

2: of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way

to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but

used" [syn: {ill-used}, {put-upon}, {used}, {victimized}]

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)