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• logic bomb n. Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or OS that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met.
  Compare back door....
• dongle-disk: /don'gl disk/ n. A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task.
  Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't....
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• vaxism: /vak'sizm/ n. A piece of code that exhibits {vaxocentrism} in critical areas.
  Compare {PC-ism}, {unixism}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ime bomb: n. A subspecies of {logic bomb} that is triggered by reaching some preset time, either once or periodically.
  There are numerous legends about time bombs set up by programmers in their employers' machines, to go off if the programmer is fired or laid off and is not present to perform the appropriate suppressing action periodically....
• wave a dead chicken: v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended.
  I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug....
• job security: n. When some piece of code is written in a particularly {obscure} fashio
  and no good reason (such as time or space optimization) can be discovered, it is often said that the programmer was attempting to increase his job security (i....
• dumpster diving: /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ n. 1. The practice of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to extract confidential data
  especially security-compromising information (`dumpster' is an Americanism for what is elsewhere called a `skip')....
• kangaroo code: n. Syn. {spaghetti code}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary