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; Unix Password Own

: One of the ideas of its origin comes from the [[Linux]]/[[Unix]] subculture. ''Password Own'' meant that a person owned the root password, and thus no one but the password owner could access that machine any longer. Password owning is such a powerful way to lock down a Unix machine, that theit applicationexplains ofwhy ''pwn'' gained popularity in online gaming isas a more powerful version of ''own'' and why it caught popularity.

; Alternate for ''owned'' after word was banned