script kiddies

pl.n. 1. [very common] The lowest form of cracker ; script kiddies do
mischief with scripts and rootkits written by others, often without
understanding the exploit they are using. Used of people with limited
technical expertise using easy-to-operate, pre-configured, and/or automated
tools to conduct disruptive activities against networked systems. Since most
of these tools are fairly well-known by the security community, the adverse
impact of such actions is usually minimal. 2. People who cannot program, but
who create tacky HTML pages by copying JavaScript routines from other tacky
HTML pages.
