dumpster diving /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ n.
1. The practice
of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to
extract confidential data, especially security-compromising
information (`dumpster' is an Americanism for what is elsewhere
called a `skip'). Back in AT&T's monopoly days, before paper
shredders became common office equipment, phone phreaks (see
phreaking) used to organize regular dumpster runs against
phone company plants and offices. Discarded and damaged copies of
AT&T internal manuals taught them much. The technique is still
rumored to be a favorite of crackers operating against careless
targets. 2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings
where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are
located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding
discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health
in some hacker's den. Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently
accumulate basements full of moldering (but still potentially
useful) cruft.
1. The practice
of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to
extract confidential data, especially security-compromising
information (`dumpster' is an Americanism for what is elsewhere
called a `skip'). Back in AT&T's monopoly days, before paper
shredders became common office equipment, phone phreaks (see
phreaking) used to organize regular dumpster runs against
phone company plants and offices. Discarded and damaged copies of
AT&T internal manuals taught them much. The technique is still
rumored to be a favorite of crackers operating against careless
targets. 2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings
where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are
located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding
discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health
in some hacker's den. Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently
accumulate basements full of moldering (but still potentially
useful) cruft.
Related:
- dumpster diving /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ n.
1. The practice
of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to
extract confidential data
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(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
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science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make
free long-distance calls).
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[from `phone phreak'] 1.
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[common; from the 1960s
"Hogan's Heroes" TV series] A pretentious piece of equipment
that actually serves no useful purpose.
Usually used to describe one's least favorite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature.... - blinkenlights /blink'*n-li:tz/ n.
[common] Front-panel
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a dinosaur. Now that dinosaurs are rare, this term usually refers to status lights on a modem, network hub, or the like.... - kluge /klooj/
[from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1.... - pathological adj.
1. [scientific computation] Used of a
data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
