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• The Cuckoo's Egg: Clifford Stoll Doubleday 1989 ISBN 0-385-24946-2 Clifford Stoll's absorbing tale of how he tracked Markus Hess and the Chaos Club cracking ring nicely illustrates the difference between `hacker' and `cracker'.
  Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha, and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live and how they think....
• RTM: /R-T-M/ [USENET: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr....
• amurai: n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking job
  snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith....
• 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....
• worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
  A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes....
• cracker n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca.
  1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q....
• funny money: n. 1. Notional `dollar' units of computing time and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course
  also called `play money' or `purple money' (in implicit opposition to real or `green' money)....
• worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
  Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms....
• erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....