Dictionary

hackable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From hack + -able.

Meanings

1. That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
2. That lends itself to hacking (technical tinkering and modification); moddable.
   • Hey, watch it! I'll be the first to admit that RSTS is old, generally ugly, and very stupid about lots of things, but it IS hackable. UNIX is equally, if not more, ugly, stupid, etc., and is also hackable. The difference is that in order to get UNIX to do ANYTHING even REMOTELY USEFUL it MUST be hacked. Of course, if you like case significance and an operating system designed around the same mindless philosophy, go ahead and use stock UNIX. For now, on PDP-11s, I'll stick to hacking RSTS. 1983 January 29, Michael C. Greenspon, “Re: RSTS dies?”, in fa.human-nets (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <bnews.brl-bmd.512>:
   • The robotic vacuum cleaner proved to be hackable, so we reprogrammed two of them to race each other.

Forms

Antonyms

unhackable

Translations (5)

fr bidouillable (that lends itself to hacking; moddable) · fr piratable (that can be hacked) · fr reprogrammable (that lends itself to hacking; moddable) · pl dający się zmodować (that lends itself to hacking; moddable) · pl hakowalny (that can be hacked)