How do you define HACKING? Anybody out there?
I need the definition from anybody except Pundit (who in this case will be beneficiary - of definition - and suspect)
"hack1
hak/
verb
gerund or present participle: hacking
1.
cut with rough or heavy blows.
"I watched them hack the branches"
synonyms: cut, chop, hew, lop, saw; slash
"Stuart hacked the padlock off"
kick wildly or roughly.
"he had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand"
2.
gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer.
"they hacked into the bank's computer"
program quickly and roughly.
3.
cough persistently.
"I was waking up in the middle of the night and coughing and hacking for hours"
4.
informal
manage; cope.
"lots of people leave because they can't hack it"
synonyms: cope, manage, get on, get along, get by, carry on, muddle through, muddle along, come through, stand on one's own two feet, weather the storm; More
stand it, tolerate it, bear it, endure it, put up with it;
thole it;
informalmake out, handle it, abide it, stick it;
informalrub along, be doing with it
"Adam moved out because he couldn't hack it"
Origin
Old English haccian ‘cut in pieces’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hakken and German hacken .
hack2
hak/
verb
gerund or present participle: hacking
ride a horse for pleasure or exercise.
"some gentle hacking in a scenic setting"
Origin
Middle English (in sense 2 of the noun): abbreviation of hackney. Sense 1 of the noun dates from the late 17th century.
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My understanding is to make an electronic device to behave in a way that it was not intended to.