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• munching: n. Exploration of security holes of someone else's computer for thrills, notoriety, or to annoy the system manager.
  Compare {cracker}. See also {hacked off}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mangler: [DEC] n. A manager. Compare {mango}; see also {management}.
  Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eal user n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying real money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• mango: /mang'go/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n.
  A manager. Compare {mangler}. See also {devo} and {doco}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ocial engineering: n. Term used among {cracker}s and {samurai} for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in {wetware} rather than software
  he aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security....
• ilicon n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare iron).
  Contrasted with software. See also sandbender....
• 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...
• cracker n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca.
  1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q....