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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hacked off</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hack-value.html" title="hack value"/><link rel="next" href="hacked-up.html" title="hacked up"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hacked off</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-value.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacked-up.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hacked-off"/><dt xmlns="" id="hacked-off"><b>hacked off</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [analogous to &#8216;pissed off&#8217;] Said of system
administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to
suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimized by
crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly
criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home
directory called &#8216;worm&#8217;, &#8216;lockpick&#8217;, or
&#8216;goroot&#8217; would probably be an effective (as well as
impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at
you.</p><p>It has been pointed out that there is precedent for this usage in
U.S. Navy slang, in which officers under discipline are sometimes said to
be &#8220;<span class="quote">in hack</span>&#8221; and one may speak of &#8220;<span class="quote">hacking off the
C.O.</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hack-value.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hacked-up.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hack value </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hacked up</td></tr></table></div></body></html>