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• It turned out that the worm exploited three or four different holes in the system.
  From this, and the fact that we were able to capture and examine some of the source code, we realized that we were dealing with someone very sharp, probably not someone here on campus....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• bob n. At Demon Internet, all tech support personal are called "Bob".
  (Female support personnel have an option on "Bobette")....
• We invented a new protocol and called it Kermit, after Kermit the Frog, star of "The Muppet Show.
  [3] [3] Why? Mostly because there was a Muppets calendar on the wall when we were trying to think of a name, and Kermit is a pleasant, unassuming sort of character....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• baggy pantsing v. [Georgia Tech] A "baggy pantsing" is used to reprimand hackers who incautiously leave their terminals unlocked.
  The affected user will come back to find a post from them on internal newsgroups discussing exactly how baggy their pants are, an accepted stand-in for "unattentive user who left their work unprotected in the clusters"....
• I'm married to an English guy. He's a typical English guy.
  He's very reserved. In fact, it wasn't until after we were married that I actually knew he wanted to go out with me....
• They turned away, until we were only memories.
• Unix /yoo'niks/ n. [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multic
  very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....