sabotage

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Friends of mine who are much smarter than me thought the worm might have just been a cover for direct sabotage.

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Quick take

a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged

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The clearest senses and uses of sabotage gathered in one view.

noun

a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged

verb

destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sabotage.

noun

a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged

verb

destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

Example sentences

Friends of mine who are much smarter than me thought the worm might have just been a cover for direct sabotage.

It's not that they cleverly and fairly break encryption, it's that they sabotage the standards.

This really makes you wonder at what point do you go from calling something "some digital nudging about between nations" to "war".To me this seems to qualify as terrorism and sabotage on all accounts.

" It's the same when big media corporations trade in innuendo and conspiracy theories and deliberately sabotage the dissemination of knowledge for their own ends.

The theory is that Microsoft and/or Apple somehow infiltrated the Ubuntu organization and got their men in as developers and made big changes to sabotage and undermine the Ubuntu project.

\n"The Syrian government said that terrorists were behind the outages, but CloudFlare, a firm that helps accelerate Internet traffic, said it would have been extremely difficult for any type of sabotage to cause such a comprehensive blackout, according to Reuters.

As I'd mentioned on an earlier submission about W3C's site being inaccessible:A cool thing about Aaron's activism was that it involved building things, circumventing censorship, and spreading information, rather than sabotage and denial-of-service.

The dialogic image has become the weaponisation of ridicule; the designer has become a postfordist saboteur of the industrial process, and the ever-present spectre of sabotage as the unspoken clot of class-war clogs another artery of capital.