throwaway account n.
1. An inexpensive Internet account
purchased on a legitimate ISP for the the sole purpose of
spewing spam. 2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for
the sole purpose of doing something which requires a valid email
address but being able to ignore spam since the user will not look
at the account again.
1. An inexpensive Internet account
purchased on a legitimate ISP for the the sole purpose of
spewing spam. 2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for
the sole purpose of doing something which requires a valid email
address but being able to ignore spam since the user will not look
at the account again.
Related:
- spamhaus spam'hows n.
Pejorative term for an
internet service provider that permits or even encourages spam
mailings from its systems.
The plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page... - spam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer... - toor n.
The Bourne-Again Super-user. An alternate account
with UID of 0,
created on Unix machines where the root user has an... - You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you decide to stay in school.
just to keep your Internet account... - cybercrud /si:'ber-kruhd/ n.
1. [coined by Ted Nelson]
Obfuscatory tech-talk.
Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer... - cybercrud: /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson]
Obfuscatory tech-talk.
Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The computer... - Breidbart Index /bri:d'bart ind*ks/
A measurement of the
severity of spam invented by long-time hacker Seth Breidbart,
used for programming cancelbots. The Breidbart Index... - bang path n.
[now historical] An old-style UUCP
electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some
assumed-reachable location to the addressee,
so called because each hop is signified by a bang... - bang path: n. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying
hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee,
so called because each {hop} is signified by a {bang}...
