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Eaker N. An Individual Hired To Break Into Places In Order To Test Their Security
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sneaker n.
An individual hired to break into places in
order to test their security; analogous to tiger team.
Compare samurai.
Related:
ocial engineering n. Term used among crackers and samurai for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in wetware rather than software
he aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security....
ocial engineering: n. Term used among {cracker}s and {samurai} for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in {wetware} rather than software
he aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security....
iger team n. [U.S. military jargon] 1. Originally, a team (of sneakers) whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures.
These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e....
iger team: [U.S. military jargon] n. 1. Originally, a team whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures.
These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e....
Unix is not your mother. -- The Tiger Team
Security is the individual's responsibility.
amurai n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking job
snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith....
hacker ethic n. 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good
and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open-source and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible....
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....