Crossword clues for backdoor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backdoor \Back"door"\, a. Acting from behind and in concealment; backstairs; as, backdoor intrigues.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also back-door, "devious, shady, illegal," 1640s. The notion is of business done out of public view. The noun back door in the literal sense is from 1520s, from back (adj.) + door. The association with sodomy is at least from 19c.; compare also back-door man "a married woman's lover," black slang, early 20c.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of back door English) vb. (alternative spelling of back door English)
Wikipedia
A backdoor is a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication in a product, computer system, cryptosystem or algorithm etc. Backdoors are often used for securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, or obtaining access to plaintext in cryptographic systems.
A backdoor may take the form of a hidden part of a program, a separate program (e.g. Back Orifice may subvert the system through a rootkit), or may be a hardware feature. Although normally surreptitiously installed, in some cases backdoors are deliberate and widely known. These kinds of backdoors might have "legitimate" uses such as providing the manufacturer with a way to restore user passwords.
Default passwords can function as backdoors if they are not changed by the user. Some debugging features can also act as backdoors if they are not removed in the release version.
In 1993 the United States government attempted to deploy an encryption system, the Clipper chip, with an explicit backdoor for law enforcement and national security access. The chip was unsuccessful internationally and in business.
Backdoor is a 2000 Greek coming of age film
Usage examples of "backdoor".
Henry crossed to his backdoor and went into the kitchen, where I could see him through the window, scrubbing up at the sink.
Blanche was just banging through the backdoor with four-year-old Josh on her hip, his legs hanging way past her knees.
For the six months Augustine rented from us, Dow would go off to work and the next thing you know, Crystal would come sneaking out her backdoor, through the trees, and into the cottage.
Once inside the backdoor, I was careful to wipe my feet on the shaggy cotton door mat provided for that purpose.
The backdoor was half glass and I could see an old woman in a housedress fussing with a coven of cats.
Maybe someone had gone out for a moment, leaving the backdoor open for convenience.
Now, instead of looking for certain key words and forwarding files that contained them to his computer, the backdoor carried out Galdamiz’s new order: to route copies of all new files that showed up on Latham’s computer to his own.
Iino located several backdoor programs in the colony’s computer system, which they traced back to Mr.
He then sent a copy of the MailBlocker virus to Vlast in Bulgaria and, to Phate, Gillette’s own version of Backdoor-G.
He knew instantly: the picture supposedly sent by Vlast had in fact been e-mailed to him by Wyatt Gillette to implant a backdoor virus in his computer.
So far, paying for the wine while killing time in a small taverna, waiting for the sightseeing trip to begin, was his only contribution to the backdoor reconnaissance of the villa.
Enid took up a wide canvas tote and disappeared through the utility room, moving toward the backdoor.
We made our hasty excuses, moving out of Henry's backdoor and across to my place without exchanging a word.
And, right now, Preacher was coming hard up the backdoor step of the classroom with his gladhanding deacons in tow.
Somewhere in the early morning hours Tizzy stirred, just for a moment, she surfaced long enough to hear the backdoor screen.