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• ampoline n. An incredibly hairy technique, found in some HLL and program-overlay implementations (e.
  g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections....
• 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...
• 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...
• ap: v. To replace a pointer to a pointer with a direct pointe
  to replace an old address with the forwarding address found there....
• handle: n. 1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym
  a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's true identity....
• ext: n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code' portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS.
  Compare {English}. 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense...
• hairy: adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy.
  2. Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy....
• magic cookie: [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operatio
  a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way....
• 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...