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• incantation: n. Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result.
  Not used of passwords or other explicit security features....
• mutter vt. To quietly enter a command not meant for the ears, eyes, or fingers of ordinary mortals.
  Often used in `mutter an incantation'. See also wizard....
• mutter: vt. To quietly enter a command not meant for the ears, eyes, or fingers of ordinary mortals.
  Often used in `mutter an {incantation}'. See also {wizard}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• wizard n. 1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• What does "BSS" mean? Traditionally, executable Unix system programs are divided into text, data, and BSS segments.
  The text segment contains executable code, the data segment contains initialized variables, and the BSS segment contains uninitialized variables....
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed....
• buffer overflow n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This problem is commonly exploited by crackers to get arbitrary commands executed by a program running with root permissions....
• live data: n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it.
  One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program key...