in computer hacking, what does it mean to get in via a back door and how does it work?
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Say you live in a house on a busy street.
When you leave your house, you lock it. You’re the only one with a key. You don’t want anyone to get in unless you use your key to allow it.
But there may be circumstamces where you want a backup solution. What if you locked your key inside? What if someone you want to be able to enter your house arrives, and you’re not there to let them in?
To solve this, you devise a brilliant plan. You’ll leave a spare key under the doormat by the the door behind your house. A clean backup strat to get you in in a pinch and easy instructions you can grant to trusted parties that you can revoke at any time. Sure, it would be devestating if someone you didn’t authorize found it, but someone would have to jump through the mental hoops of going around back of your house, moving the doormat, and finding the key.
And the sad fact is, some clever people DO manage to take the time to scope things and figure that out. In the real world, we call them burglars. In the digital world, we call them hackers.
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