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• iron box n. [Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced.
  May include a modified shell restricting the cracker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files designed to keep him interested and logged on....
• firewall machine: n. A dedicated gateway machine with special security precautions on it, used to service outside network connections and dial-in lines.
  The idea is to protect a cluster of more loosely administered machines hidden behind it from {cracker}s....
• The Cuckoo's Egg: Clifford Stoll Doubleday 1989 ISBN 0-385-24946-2 Clifford Stoll's absorbing tale of how he tracked Markus Hess and the Chaos Club cracking ring nicely illustrates the difference between `hacker' and `cracker'.
  Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha, and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live and how they think....
• firewall machine n. A dedicated gateway machine with special security precautions on it, used to service outside network connections and dial-in lines.
  The idea is to protect a cluster of more loosely administered machines hidden behind it from crackers....
• padded cell: n. Where you put {luser}s so they can't hurt anything.
  A program that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset of the capabilities of the host system (for example, the `rsh(1)' utility on USG UNIX)....
• back door n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
  The motivation for such holes is not always siniste...
• Venus flytrap n. [after the insect-eating plant] See firewall machine.
• worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
  A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes....
• flytrap n. [rare] See firewall machine.