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• incantation n. Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result.
  Not used of passwords or other explicit security features....
• mutter: vt. To quietly enter a command not meant for the ears, eyes, or fingers of ordinary mortals.
  Often used in `mutter an {incantation}'. See also {wizard}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mutter vt. To quietly enter a command not meant for the ears, eyes, or fingers of ordinary mortals.
  Often used in `mutter an incantation'. See also wizard....
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed....
• 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!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• live data: n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it.
  One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program key...
• fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• dusty deck: n. Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with
  or to maintain ({DP} types call this `legacy code', a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent)....