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• logic bomb n. Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or OS that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met.
  Compare back door....
• back door n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
  The motivation for such holes is not always siniste...
• background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....
• dongle-disk /don'gl disk/ n. A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task.
  Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others are special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't....
• dongle-disk: /don'gl disk/ n. A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task.
  Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't....
• ime bomb n. A subspecies of logic bomb that is triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically.
  There are numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if the programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically....
• ime bomb: n. A subspecies of {logic bomb} that is triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically.
  There are numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if the programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically....