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• Great Worm, the: n. The 1988 Internet {worm} perpetrated by {RTM}.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare {elvish}, {elder days})....
• worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
  A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes....
• RTM: /R-T-M/ [USENET: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr....
• elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET....
• worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
  Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms....
• RTM /R-T-M/ [Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm)...
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• pr0n // [Usenet, IRC] Pornography. Originally this referred only to Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about anything.
  The term comes from the warez kiddies tendency to replac on IRC someone mistyped, swapped the middle two letters, and the name stuck, then propagated over into mainstream hacker usage....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....