Associations to the word «Backdoor»

Wiktionary

BACKDOOR, noun. Alternative spelling of back door
BACKDOOR, verb. Alternative spelling of back door

Dictionary definition

BACKDOOR, noun. An undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains.
BACKDOOR, noun. An entrance at the rear of a building.
BACKDOOR, noun. A secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne