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Princeton's WordNet
back door, backdoornoun
a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
"he got his job through the back door"
back door, backdoor, back entrancenoun
an entrance at the rear of a building
back door, backdoornoun
an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
Wiktionary
backdoornoun
An unprotected passageway by which a criminal can gain access to (an assumed to be) secure area.
backdoornoun
Anal sex.
Etymology: From the phrase back door.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Backdooradjective
acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues
Wikidata
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.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of backdoor in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of backdoor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of backdoor in a Sentence
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.
They said if you will insist on the ruling, discussing it along those lines, then we might be headed for a confrontation, but I really honestly feel that this is something they have to make on a public basis but I also sensed there was room for us to talk very quietly using backdoor channeling.
I discovered a backdoor that allowed me to gain privileged access to the Satellite Data Unit, the most important piece of SATCOM (Satellite communications) equipment on aircraft, these vulnerabilities allowed unauthenticated users to hack into the SATCOM equipment when it is accessible through WiFi or In-Flight entertainment networks.
We will enforce a strict prohibition on backdoor funding schemes and end-runs around our policy.
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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