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• war dialer n. A cracking tool, a program that calls a given list or range of phone numbers and records those which answer with handshake tones (and so might be entry points to computer or telecommunications systems).
  Some of these programs have become quite sophisticated, and can now detect modem, fax, or PBX tones and log each one separately....
• daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n. [from the mythological meaning
  later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• chain 1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement] To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS command interpreter that invoked it.
  The state of the parent program is lost and there is no returning to it....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• daemon: /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n.
  A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• cookie monster n. [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10
  ITS, Multics, and that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE"....
• plat n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....
• Tinkerbell program n. [Great Britain] A monitoring program used to scan incoming network calls and generate alerts when calls are received from particular site
  or when logins are attempted using certain IDs....
• blue box n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band
  one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls....