hacking

Using something and change it, and make it do what you want with it. Commonly used in the opensource communety becose every one can (re)use eatch other source code. Confusing a computer program to give you access to that machine is also a hack. Doing this becose you want to test securety is a white hat Intendedly useing a hack to take over that pc to do your bidding is a cracker or black hat. Downloading hacks and try them to gain access to a computer with out knowing that it realy does is a script kiddy