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Unhackable vs Unpackable - What's the difference?

unhackable | unpackable |

As adjectives the difference between unhackable and unpackable

is that unhackable is (computing) not hackable; that cannot be hacked or broken into while unpackable is not packable or unpackable can be capable of being unpacked.

unhackable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (computing) Not hackable; that cannot be hacked or broken into.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 8, author=Seth Schiesel, title=For Parents, New Ways to Control the Action, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=With Vista, parents for the first time have powerful, easy-to-use, practically unhackable tools to control and monitor just about everything their children do with the home computer, online and off. }}

    Synonyms

    * impregnable * invulnerable

    unpackable

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not packable.
  • * 1997 , Susan Wood, A Fly in Amber (page 172)
    • Eight chairs, two tents, tables, food and lamps were among the articles whose unpackable shapes were to provide us with many problems during the tour.

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being unpacked.