Example Sentences

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For example, if an attacker takes advantage before you get to patch—and they are commandeering your logging and the information in the logs—could you detect them hiding their traffic?

From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2021

Hackers are commandeering the horsepower of unwitting victims’ computers to secretly generate cryptocurrencies, hoping to cash in as the price of bitcoin has soared to $6,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2017

Developers of assistive technologies for the blind are commandeering increasingly cheap and ubiquitous personal gadgets for their research aims.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2016

The sleek and shapely kine which these sturdy fellows are commandeering plod peacefully along in happy ignorance of the fact that they are prisoners of war being led to their doom by an armed guard.

From The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 by Various