tamperers
Those who interfere
Tamperers are people who meddle with or interfere with something, typically in unauthorized or harmful ways.
The word carries connotations of illicit alteration—tamperers might compromise evidence, manipulate voting machines, or adulterate products: The investigation focused on identifying the tamperers who had accessed the sealed documents.
Intentional disruptors of operations
- vandalsWillful property destroyers
- hackersUnauthorized computer system intruders
- manipulatorsPeople who influence deceitfully
- corruptersThose who debase others
disruptors · defacers · adulterators · falsifiers · forgers · counterfeiters · contaminators · polluters
Those who create fraudulent copies
- falsifiersThose who distort truth
- adulteratorsThose who corrupt purity
- manipulatorsPeople who influence deceitfully
- obstructorsThose who impede progress
conspirators · cover-up · perjurers · destroyers · alterers · fabricators · concealers · plant
Those who interfere uninvited
- interlopersUnwelcome meddlers in affairs
- intrudersUnauthorized entrants
- trespassersUnlawful entrants onto property
- busybodiesThose who interfere uninvited
snoops · manipulators · intermeddlers · obstructors · encroachers · disturbers · interrupters · interventionists
Unauthorized computer system intruders
- intrudersUnauthorized entrants
- infiltratorsThose entering by stealth
- breakersWaves that collapse shoreward
- violatorsThose who break rules
trespassers · crackers · exploiters · bypassing · circumventing · accessing · compromising · penetrating
saboteurs
Intentional disruptors of operations
- vandalsWillful property destroyers
- hackersUnauthorized computer system intruders
- manipulatorsPeople who influence deceitfully
corrupters · disruptors · defacers · adulterators · falsifiers · forgers · counterfeiters · contaminators · polluters · meddlers
forgers
Those who create fraudulent copies
- falsifiersThose who distort truth
- adulteratorsThose who corrupt purity
- manipulatorsPeople who influence deceitfully
obstructors · conspirators · cover-up · perjurers · destroyers · alterers · fabricators · concealers · plant · contamination
meddlers
Those who interfere uninvited
- interlopersUnwelcome meddlers in affairs
- intrudersUnauthorized entrants
- trespassersUnlawful entrants onto property
busybodies · snoops · manipulators · intermeddlers · obstructors · encroachers · disturbers · interrupters · interventionists · kibitzers
hackers
Unauthorized computer system intruders
- intrudersUnauthorized entrants
- infiltratorsThose entering by stealth
- breakersWaves that collapse shoreward
violators · trespassers · crackers · exploiters · bypassing · circumventing · accessing · compromising · penetrating · overriding
tampererspreservers
Things that maintain condition
protectors · conservators · custodians · guardians · keepers