1. [cracker slang; often written 0wned
] Your condition
when your machine has been cracked by a root exploit, and the attacker can
do anything with it. This sense is occasionally used by hackers.
2. [gamers, IRC, crackers] To be dominated, controlled, mastered.
For example, if you make a statement completely and utterly false, and
someone else corrects it in a way that humiliates or removes you, you are
said to have been owned
by that person. When referring to
games, I own0r UT GOTYE
means that one has mastered Unreal
Tournament, Game of the Year Edition to such a level that even the hardest
AI characters are mere lunchmeat, and that no ordinary mortal player would
even receive a point in competition. There are several spelling variants:
0wned, 0wn0r3d, even pwn0r3d. Hackers do not use this sense.