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by detrites 1101 days ago
Reduced without meaning loss:

> Hackers exploit flawed proprietary code.

(6w/45c -> 5w/40c)

3 comments

The first 3 words carry the same information as: hackers hacked hackable proprietary code. So just "proprietary code hacked" is enough.
Agreed. Further reduced:

> Proprietary code hack.

(6w/45c -> 3w/22c: >50%)

This is too context dependent to be considered lossless.
As it's overwhelmingly code that is hacked, this is nearly lossless:

Proprietary hack

2w/15c

Phack

1w/5c

Goddamn! I thought I was anal about efficiency...
You can get rid of 'flawed' since it's implicit in 'exploit'
The word exploit alone is ambiguous since it can also mean roughly “to use.”