hacked off

jargon (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of systemadministrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy

owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to

be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate,

technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For

example, having unreadable files in your home directory called

"worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective

(as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your

sysadmin hacked off at you.

[Jargon File]

(1996-08-26)