A computer expert who specialises in removing protection mechanisms from commercial software. These protections often limit (cripple) the software functionality or render the software unoperatable after a certain number of uses or when a expiry date is reached.
This activity is ilegal in many countries because it forces the software developers to increase the price of their products in order to recover lost revenue.
A cracker will usually have low level programming experience and a detailed technical understanding of commercial software protections.
This activity is ilegal in many countries because it forces the software developers to increase the price of their products in order to recover lost revenue.
A cracker will usually have low level programming experience and a detailed technical understanding of commercial software protections.
Hardware protections are the best defence against crackers because they require great technical expertise to circumvent.
by dila April 30, 2006
A "talker" in the sense of a Gaelic word meaning talk..."craic". The term was originally used to describe Scots, Irish and Ulster-Scots and -Irish (many of whom settled in the Southern US) with the "gift of gab". As these folks were almost exclusively Caucasian, it somehow (don't know) evolved into a derogatory term for them.
by An Ulster Scot August 20, 2006
A person who hacks and guesses password without any prior knowlegde; A Person who is described as someone who hacks into systems and/or sites/data to only destroy wihtout any intrest in the system there breaking into; A white person refered to as a cracker by a racist normally a African American or a white person that acts black ("wigger")
by {HC}Cookie November 28, 2006
a poor white person from southern United States who worked alongside slaves. Were said to have eaten crackers as their main diet because they were so poor.
by Miss Sparks June 30, 2009
by Joey Jaw Breaker May 12, 2008
The use of the word "cracker" to refer to a group of people has it's earliest days in the hacker culture. Crackers originally referred to a group of people(mostly adolescent males) that called themselves hackers, but were really only good for phreaking and messing up computers. Essentially, people who were better at creating problems than fixing them. The members of hacker culture do this to distinguish themselves from their less skillful counterpart. In today's pop culture, cracker has become a racial slur for people of Caucasian descent.
That dude totally messed up his computer. What a cracker.
She's such a cracker with her Starbucks and her iPhone 5.
She's such a cracker with her Starbucks and her iPhone 5.
by mrminorchord May 31, 2014
a delicious snack, usually eaten with cheese or other dairy products (milk is highly unrecommended).
i'm hungry and do not know what to eat, bah, alas, not junk food, but wait, what's this? a cracker, this will provide me with minimum nutrition, excellent!
by fattybunta August 26, 2007