Owned

Owned
For the state of ownership, see Ownership.

Owned is a slang word[1][2] that originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer.[3][4]

The term's original usage was close to that of the traditional meaning of the word "own" - for instance, "I owned the network at MIT" indicated that the speaker had cracked the servers and had the same root-level privileges that the legitimate owner of the servers had. Some more examples are,"I owned you" and,"You got owned". "Owned", a later variant, became more common in the late 1990s, as did the more abstract usage referring to any compromised security mechanism. By 1997, "owned" was regularly used in website defacements,[5][6] and it subsequently spread to gaming circles, where it was used to refer to defeat in a game. For example, if a player makes a particularly impressive kill shot or wins a match by an appreciable margin in a multiplayer video game, it is not uncommon for he/she to say "owned" to the loser(s), as a manifestation of victory, a taunt, or provocation. "Ownage" has become a modern equivalent to a "Turkey shoot," such as an experienced faction verses a beginner or disadvantaged faction. In slang form, Owned is the adjective (He is owned) Owning is the verb (He is totally owning some ass) and Ownage is the noun (Did you see that ownage?)

Owned has now spread beyond computer and gaming contexts and become part of standard slang, and typically follows severe defeat or humiliation, usually in an amusing way or through the dominance of an opposing party.[7] Other variations of the word owned include own3d, 0wn3d, pwned, and pooned,[7] terms which incorporate elements of leetspeak.

In 2009, Newgrounds described a security vulnerability in ActiveX as leaving Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server users open to a "Browse-And-Get-Owned" attack.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Society For Linguistic Anthropology newsletter". http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/an.2006.47.1.62.2. 
  2. ^ "Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society" (PDF). http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/ajets/journal/V3N2/pdf/V3N2-2-Blashki.pdf. 
  3. ^ "Phrack Loopback". Phrack. September 1, 1996. Archived from the original on August 16, 2002. http://web.archive.org/web/20020816141834/http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=48&a=2. 
  4. ^ "Re: An unusual situation". alt.sysadmin.recovery. June 21, 1996. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/msg/becb128a88d144f5?dmode=source&hl=en. 
  5. ^ "Spice Girls website defacement". attrition.org. 14 Nov.1997. http://attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1997/11/14/spice/. 
  6. ^ "Yahoo website defacement". attrition.org. 8 December 1997. http://attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1997/12/08/www.yahoo.com/. 
  7. ^ a b Owned from the Jargon File, version 4.4.7. Retrieved 2007-09-22
  8. ^ Tom Fulp, "Microsoft Warns Of 'Browse-And-Get-Owned' Attack", InformationWeek, July 7, 2009.

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