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back dooring

back dooring is the present participle and gerund of back door.

Meaning of back door

Verb

back door (third-person singular simple present back doors, present participle back dooring, simple past and past participle back doored)

  1. To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
  2. (transitive) To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
    • If you survive the heavy take-off at 'The Chair' (which is very close to the rocks) you will find you're in 'The Suck-up', which offers either a spectacular barrel or a bonecrunching wipeout, but you might find you have to back door it.1999, Mark Warren, Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing, traveller's, →ISBN, page 103
  3. (transitive, computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
    • Now that we have backdoored the notepad.exe binary, we will go back to the Meterpreter session and upload our backdoor: 3. Then, we need to start a listener so we. meterpreter > upload notepad-backdoored.exe [*] uploading[…]2018 February 26, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal, Daniel Teixeira, Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook: Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the...
  4. (slang, transitive) To betray (someone); to double-cross (someone); to set (someone) up; to take advantage of (someone's) trust.

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Questions about back dooring

What is back dooring the present participle and gerund of?
Back dooring is the present participle and gerund of back door.

Words near back dooring in the dictionary

  1. back dives
  2. back door
  3. back door slider
  4. back door sliders
  5. back doored
  6. back dooring
  7. back doors
  8. back double biceps
  9. back down
  10. back draft
  11. back drafts

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