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• Venus flytrap n. [after the insect-eating plant] See firewall machine.
• 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....
• 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....
• firewall machine: n. A dedicated gateway machine with special security precautions on it, used to service outside network connections and dial-in lines.
  The idea is to protect a cluster of more loosely administered machines hidden behind it from {cracker}s....
• firewall machine n. A dedicated gateway machine with special security precautions on it, used to service outside network connections and dial-in lines.
  The idea is to protect a cluster of more loosely administered machines hidden behind it from crackers....
• oast 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp.
  one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast....
• hop 1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....
• laundromat n. Syn. disk farm; see washing machine.
• patch space n. An unused block of bits left in a binary so that it can later be modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically
  he patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is patched to contain a jump or call to the patch space)....