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• iron box: [UNIX/Internet] n. 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....
• Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontie
  Katie Hafner & John Markoff Simon & Schuster 1991 ISBN 0-671-68322-5 This book gathers narratives about the careers of three notorious crackers into a clear-eyed but sympathetic portrait of hackerdom's dark side....
• Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
  -- Clifford Stoll...
• 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....
• alescritter: /sayls'kri`tr/ n. Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson.
  Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman?...
• hacker ethic n. 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good
  and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open-source and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible....
• Hackers: Steven Levy Anchor/Doubleday 1984 ISBN 0-385-19195-2 Levy's book is at its best in describing the early MIT hackers at the Model Railroad Club and the early days of the microcomputer revolution.
  He never understood UNIX or the networks, though, and his enshrinement of Richard Stallman as "the last true hacker" turns out (thankfully) to have been quite misleading....
• The Soul of a New Machine: Tracy Kidder Little, Brown, 1981 (paperback
  Avon, 1982 ISBN 0-380-59931-7) This book (a 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner) documents the adventure of the design of a new Data General computer, the MV-8000 Eagle....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....