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• ourist: [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms)....
• luser: /loo'zr/ n. A {user}; esp. one who is also a {loser}.
  ({luser} and {loser} are pronounced identically....
• luser /loo'zr/ n. [common] A user; esp. one who is also a loser.
  (luser and loser ar pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT....
• urist: /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of {tourist}, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic'.
  Poss. influenced by {luser} and `Turing'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• urist /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of tourist, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic'.
  Poss. influenced by luser and `Turing'....
• wizard mode: [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....
• GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
• download vt. 1. [techspeak] To transfer data or (esp.
  ) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a mainframe) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....