Hacking may refer to:

Places

* Hacking, an area within

Hietzing Hietzing () is the 13th Districts of Vienna, district of Vienna (). 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 large areas of the Vi ...

, Vienna, Austria

People

David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 17 April 1938), is a British arbitration, arbitrator, barrister and hereditary peer. Education and military career He was educated at Aldro School, Aldro Preparatory school (United Kingdom), preparatory sch ...

(born 1938), British barrister and peer * Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (1884–1950), British Conservative politician *

Ian Hacking Ian MacDougall Hacking (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, ...

(1936–2023), Canadian philosopher of science * Philip Hacking (1931–2024), English Anglican priest, and itinerant evangelical speaker

Sports

* Hacking (falconry), the practice of raising falcons in captivity then later releasing into the wild *

Hacking (rugby) Hacking is a tactic in the early forms of football that involved tripping an opposing player by kicking their shins. A dispute among clubs over whether to ban the tactic eventually led to the split between the sports of association football and ru ...

, 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 st ...

, 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 English martial art also called hacking

Technology

Hacker A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals and solves problems by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hackersomeone with knowledge of bug (computing), bugs or exp ...

, 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), ...

, activity within the computer programmer subculture *

Security hacker A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching or bypassing defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, pro ...

, someone who breaches defenses in a computer system **

Cybercrime Cybercrime encompasses a wide range of criminal activities that are carried out using digital devices and/or Computer network, networks. It has been variously defined as "a crime committed on a computer network, especially the Internet"; Cyberc ...

, which involves security hacking *

Phone hacking Phone hacking is the practice of exploring a mobile device, often using computer exploits to analyze everything from the lowest memory and CPU levels up to the highest file system and process levels. Modern open source tooling has become f ...

, gaining unauthorized access to phones *

ROM hacking ROM hacking is the process of Modding, modifying a ROM image, ROM image or ROM file to alter the contents contained within, usually of a video game to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, Level (video games), levels, gameplay, and/or other elemen ...

, the process of modifying a video game's program image

Other uses

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 ...

, unauthorized exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces

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