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crewage /skroo'*j/ n. Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
cribble n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
cript kiddies pl.n. The lowest form of cracke
script kiddies do mischief with scripts and programs written by others, often without understanding the exploit....
crog /skrog/ vt. [Bell Labs] To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....
crool /skrool/ n. [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.
1984; prob....
crozzle /skroz'l/ vt. Used when a self-modifying code segment runs incorrectly and corrupts the running program or vital data.
The damn compiler scrozzled itself again!...
cruffies n. See neats vs. scruffies.
SCSI n. [Small Computer System Interface] A bus-independent standard for system-level interfacing between a computer and intelligent devices.
Typically annotated in literature with `sexy'...
ScumOS /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n.
earch-and-destroy mode n. Hackerism for a noninteractive search-and-replace facility in an editor, so called because an incautiously chosen match pattern can cause infinite damage.

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