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Pwned? Really?

• deleted 13y ago
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• lotsofcows 13y ago
  It's a corruption of "owned" and refers to a hack that gives the hacker total control of the target device. HTH!
  • weego 13y ago
    The corruption originated in gaming, specifically Warcraft modding I believe. Regardless of how it originated or is used it's still rather trashy in a headline.
    • loopdoend 13y ago
      There's no way to say that pwned originated in gaming. It may have been popularized by gaming, but hackers have been describing things as owned and for a long time. The "typo" is regarded as leetspeak and isn't really trashy because it's more descriptive than owned itself.
• milkshakes 13y ago
  really. http://pwnies.com/ http://pwnies.com/ too.