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Places

* Hacking, an area within
Hietzing Hietzing () is the 13th municipal District of Vienna (german: 13. Bezirk, Hietzing). It is located west of the central districts, west of Meidling. Hietzing is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also contains larg ...
, Vienna, Austria


People

* Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (1884–1950), British Conservative politician * Ian Hacking (born 1936), Canadian philosopher of science *
David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 17 April 1938), is a British arbitrator, barrister and hereditary peer. Education and military career He was educated at Aldro preparatory school, Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge, from where h ...
(born 1938), British barrister and peer


Sports

* Hacking (falconry), the practice of raising falcons in captivity then later releasing into the wild * Hacking (rugby), tripping an opposing player *
Pleasure riding Pleasure riding is a form of equestrianism that encompasses many forms of recreational riding for personal enjoyment, absent elements of competition. In horse show competition, a wide variety of classes are labeled pleasure classes with judging s ...
, horseback riding for purely recreational purposes, also called hacking *
Shin-kicking Shin-kicking, also known as shin diggings or purring, is a combat sport that involves two contestants attempting to kick each other on the shin in order to force their opponent to the ground. It has been described as an English martial art, an ...
, an English martial art also called hacking


Technology

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Hacker A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means. Though the term ''hacker'' has become associated in popu ...
, a computer expert with advanced technical knowledge **
Hacker culture The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy—often in collective effort—the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of software systems or electronic hardware (mostly digital electronics), to a ...
, activity within the computer programmer subculture *
Security hacker A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challeng ...
, someone who breaches defenses in a computer system **
Cybercrime A cybercrime is a crime that involves a computer or a computer network.Moore, R. (2005) "Cyber crime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime," Cleveland, Mississippi: Anderson Publishing. The computer may have been used in committing t ...
, which involves security hacking * Phone hacking, gaining unauthorized access to phones * ROM hacking, the process of modifying a video game's program image


Other uses

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Roof and tunnel hacking Roof and tunnel hacking is the unauthorized exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces. The term carries a strong collegiate connotation, stemming from its use at MIT and at the U.S. Naval Academy, where the practice has a long history. I ...
, unauthorized exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces


See also

* Hack (disambiguation) * Hacker (disambiguation) * Hacks (disambiguation) * List of hacker groups * {{disambiguation, surname