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• flytrap n. [rare] 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....
• Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap.
  The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth....
• MODEM: n, Monumentally Overpriced Data Eating Machine.
• 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....
• mail storm n. [from broadcast storm, influenced by `maelstrom'] What often happens when a machine with an Internet connection and active users re-connects after extended downtime -- a flood of incoming mail that brings the machine to its knees.
  See also hairball....