Definitions for Backdoor
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. back door, backdoornoun

   a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)

   "he got his job through the back door"

2. back door, backdoor, back entrancenoun

   an entrance at the rear of a building

3. back door, backdoornoun

   an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. backdoornoun

   An unprotected passageway by which a criminal can gain access to (an assumed to be) secure area.

2. backdoornoun

   Anal sex.

3. Etymology: From the phrase back door.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Backdoornoun

   The door behind the house; privy passage.

   Etymology: from back and door.

   The procession durst not return by the way it came; but, after the devotion of the monks, passed out at a backdoor of the convent. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   Popery, which is so far shut out as not to re-enter openly, is stealing in by the backdoor of atheism. Francis Atterbury.

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1. backdoor

   A backdoor is a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication or security controls in a computer system, a network, or a software application. These backdoors are often used for securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, or obtaining access to plaintext in cryptographic systems. Backdoors may be installed by hardware or software manufacturers, hackers or covert intelligence operatives.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Backdooradjective

   acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Backdoor

   A backdoor in a computer system is a method of bypassing normal authentication, securing illegal remote access to a computer, obtaining access to plaintext, and so on, while attempting to remain undetected. The backdoor may take the form of an installed program or may subvert the system through a rootkit.

Matched Categories

1. • Access
   • Exterior Door

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Backdoor in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Backdoor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Backdoor in a Sentence

1. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

   They are not asking Apple Inc -LRB- AAPL.O -RRB- to redesign Apple Inc -LRB- AAPL.O -RRB- product or to create a new backdoor to one of their products.

2. Jeremy Hunt:

   We haven't made our final decision but we have also made it clear that we are considering both the technical issues - how you make sure there isn't a backdoor so that a third country could use 5G to spy on us - but also the strategic issues so that you make sure that you are not technologically over-dependent on a third country for absolutely vital technology.

3. Marc Brouillard:

   This is not an attack where hackers are trying to do [ it ] through the backdoor. They are going into the system just like normal users, they are applying credentials just like normal users, so it's very hard to detect that pattern from all the good traffic.

4. Natura Gracia:

   It is a bit of a backdoor they are using to focus on tax avoidance, the question will be whether the European courts will endorse what the Commission has done.

5. Alissia Canady:

   The Paseo group really infuriated the neighborhood because they felt it was a backdoor approach that deviated from the process and took away their voice.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Backdoor
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Backdoor
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Backdoor
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Backdoor
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Backdoor