back door

noun

Definitions

  1. A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.

    • "Charles II, who was crowned here a little while before, occupied an old house (which is still standing) in New Street [Worcester], from which he escaped by the back door, as the enemy rushed in at the front."
  2. A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.

    • Scoring three goals at home should guarantee you three points, but when you go on the attack a little bit more, you leave the back door open. That's not always a good idea with this team.
  3. A secret means of access to a program or system.

  4. + 10 more definitions
    1. A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.

    2. The anus

      The anus; (by extension) anal sex.

      • backdoor action
      • go up the back door
      • Oh, don't be so judgmental. You could use a little back door.
    3. The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.

      • Sometimes the ball will curve around and enter from the back-door.
    4. The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate.

      • He has a nasty back door slider.
    5. Achieved through indirect means.

    6. Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved.

    7. To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.

    8. To enter a tube by accelerating from behind

      To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.

      • If you survive the heavy take-off at 'The Chair' (which is very close to the rocks) you will find you're in 'The Suck-up', which offers either a spectacular barrel or a bonecrunching wipeout, but you might find you have to back door it.
    9. To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.

      • Now that we have backdoored the notepad.exe binary, we will go back to the Meterpreter session and upload our backdoor: 3. Then, we need to start a listener so we. meterpreter > upload notepad-backdoored.exe [*] uploading[…]
      • As an example, the generation algorithm for backdoored Dual EC picks a fixed group element Q, a random exponent d, and outputs as public key the pair P = Qd and Q. The secret key is d. (We use multiplicative notation for simplicity.)[…]
      • Back in the session, we will rename the httpd.exe file to httpd.exe.backup, upload the backdoored version, and rename it to httpd.exe: msf exploit(handler) > sessions -i 1 [*] Starting interaction with 1... meterpreter > cd[…]
    10. To betray (someone)

      To betray (someone); to double-cross (someone); to set (someone) up; to take advantage of (someone's) trust.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for back door. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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