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Pwn is a leetspeak slang term derived from the verb own, meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership. The term was created accidentally by the misspelling of "own" in video game design due to the keyboard proximity of "O" and "P." It implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet-based video game culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated (e.g., "You just got pwned!"). In script kiddie jargon, pwn means to compromise or control, specifically another computer (server or PC), website, gateway device, or application. It is synonymous with one of the definitions of hacking or cracking, including iOS jailbreaking. The Pwnie Awards are awarded by a group of security researchers. Pronunciations Because pwn is primarily used in written form, it has no single generally accepted pronunciation: renditions include , , , , , , , and perhaps from Welsh, and with a double entendre implying sexual domination, but with the Welsh use of the letter "w" after a leading consonant where it's not commonly found in English words. Originally, pwn and its variants were pronounced in the same way as the verb own, the tail of the p being "silent". A notable usage of this pronunciation can be seen in the Internet distributed series Pure Pwnage (pronounced "pure ownage"). In culture * Have I Been Pwned?, a website that reports Internet security breaches *Pwn2Own, a contest * Pwnage is the online identity of Samuel Anderson-Anderson, the protagonist in Nathan Hill's novel The Nix (2017) * Pwnsauce was the online identity of a leading hacktivist member of LulzSec. In 2015 Scrabble added pwn to their Official Scrabble Words list. 
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