loophole, n.All

The Loophole is paradigmatic of our age. The modern search for truth too often seems like a search for some loophole.

During prohibition, merchants would sell "bricks" of grape concentrate with a label that warned consumers not to mix the concentrate with yeast, water, and sugar and age the mixture for seven days, because "an illegal alcoholic beverage will result".

Loophole' originally referred to the slit in castle walls which arched fired from. Thus, finding the loophole is a way to subvert security measures.