Definitions for backdoor
back·door

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. Giannis Antetokounmpo:

   Have pride, keep your man in front of you, don’t allow them to have easy looks, don’t allow them to get easily to the free throw line. Rebound the ball. Make sure when we miss or make shots, you got to box (out). The little things add up in 48 minutes and then you’ll have the result of being good on defense. But if you let the guy shoot an open 3 then let somebody go backdoor, let somebody get offensive rebound then throw it to the 3-point guy so he can knock down the 3, all that builds up and you have a bad night.

2. 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.

3. Anthony Jack:

   These families exposed a system and I hope( this) injects into the American imagination just how much money and backdoor ways that wealthy, especially white wealthy families, get into college and universities.

4. Bryane Michael:

   With backdoor listings, you suddenly have a new group of investors controlling the company, on paper it's the same, the laws are the same, but the controlling minds have changed, and investors don't always appreciate that.

5. Mike Pompeo:

   We will refuse to provide assistance to foreign NGOs that give financial support to other foreign groups in the global abortion industry, we will enforce a strict prohibition on backdoor funding schemes and end-runs around our policy.

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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