Tinkerbell Program N. [Great Britain] A Monitoring Program Used To Scan Incoming Network Calls And Generate Alerts When Calls Are Received From Particular Site

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Tinkerbell program n.

[Great Britain] A monitoring program
used to scan incoming network calls and generate alerts when calls
are received from particular sites, or when logins are attempted
using certain IDs. Named after `Project Tinkerbell', an
experimental phone-tapping program developed by British Telecom in
the early 1980s.

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