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)