exploit

security A security hole or an instance of taking advantage

of a security hole.

"[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole"

-- Mike Emke .

Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If

this is true, this may be a case of hackerly zero-deriving

verbs (especially instantials) from nouns, akin to "write" as

a noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a

disk.

(2001-11-24)