Related:

• wabbit /wab'it/ n. [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!
  ] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978...
• cookie monster: [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] n.
  Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {{Multics}}, and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the {{console}} (on a batch {mainframe}), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE"....
• fork bomb: [UNIX] n. A particular species of {wabbit} that can be written in one line of C (`main() {for(
  )fork();}') or shell (`$0 & $0 &') on any UNIX system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug....
• abbit job: [Cambridge] n. A batch job that does little, if any, real work, but creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like rabbits.
  Compare {wabbit}, {fork bomb}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• cookie monster n. [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10
  ITS, Multics, and that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE"....
• eplicator: n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself
  his could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}....
• fork bomb n. [Unix] A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C (main() {for(
  )fork();}) or shell ($0 & $0 &) on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug....
• abbit job n. [Cambridge] A batch job that does little, if any, real work, but creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like rabbits.
  Compare wabbit, fork bomb....
• 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...