Exploit in a sentence as a noun

The same technology criminals use to exploit us is used to track them.

... and thousands of HN readers get infected by a zero-day exploit.

The tweet I posted right after this one made it clear what exploit I was using against what installed package.

The ability to discover a new exploit on demand implies a high level of skill within the group.

"Government spending is out of control" while talking about how they exploit the DTS system to get as much per diem as possible.

It is not protected in any way from the efforts of others to exploit it commercially or to give it away as they like.

And so, strong passwords are useless!Except that this has nothing at all to do with why passwords are bad. The problem GPU crackers exploit was solved over a decade ago with adaptive hashing.

As if the definition of a psychopath is someone who exploits others for their personal power, satisfaction or gain.

It doesn't matter that the app you lost was the testing instance of a status dashboard with no real data in it, because the exploit coughs up shell access on that server.

Exploit in a sentence as a verb

My best guess is that the author has an unstable computer, and they believe that occasional crashes while running parts of this JS mean that their exploit is working.

We are building X for Y”iii.\tThe next sentences must exploit your common thread, or subtly hint as to how you could help this person get ahead; preferably both.

Another possibility is that they tried to reimplement a C exploit in Javascript without understanding the difference between the languages.

This topic makes me feel positively Marxist: we're willingly participating in a system designed and perpetuated to exploit us because to do otherwise would be impolite.

Note to security response teams everywhere: Not all vulnerability reporters speak perfect English, nor are they all experienced in writing up details on how to exploit issues.

Companies like Red Hat and Canonical realized that they could exploit the deficit of community organizing to charge high rents for libre software, so long as they don't care seriously about the freedom of users.

The CPU would be an obvious choice as well -- could there be some sequence of instructions that enables privilege escalation?On protocols, the best sort of vulnerability for the NSA would be the kind that is still somewhat difficult and expensive to exploit.

It seems that in our industry it is universally a code word for "We're about to exploit you because the project is understaffed and under budgeted for time and that is exactly as we planned it so you'd better cowboy up."Maybe it is different if you're writing Quake, but I guarantee you the 43rd best selling game that year also had programmers "encouraged onwards" by tales of the glory that awaited after the death march.

Exploit definitions

noun

a notable achievement; "he performed a great feat"; "the book was her finest effort"

See also: feat effort

verb

use or manipulate to one's advantage; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy"

See also: work

verb

draw from; make good use of; "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely"

verb

work excessively hard; "he is exploiting the students"

See also: overwork