hackableadj.
/ˈhakəbl/, U.S. /ˈhækəbəl/ Of a computer, programme, network, etc.: vulnerable to being hacked (hack v.1 15d).
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1986 J. Martyn in M. Feeney New Methods & Techniques for Information Managem. xi. 339 Telephone numbers of hackable computer systems, and passwords to them, are often made available by hackers over bulletin boards.
1999 IEEE Internet Computing 3 92/2 Its stateless, textual model is particularly hackable, even by shell scripts and programs that lack any internal model of the Web.
2012 Economist 1 Sept. (Technol. Q.) 16/3 Vehicle-control software remains ‘fairly hackable’, says David Zuby, chief researcher at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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