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• ice n. [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel
  a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder)....
• cowboy: [Sun, from William Gibson's {cyberpunk} SF] n.
  Synonym for {hacker}. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence....
• amurai: n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking job
  snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith....
• 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....
• NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym
  he `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken in window systems, an elegant {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun Microsystems....
• cience-fiction fandom:: n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• fascist: adj. 1. Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies.
  The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done....
• dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
• crack root: v. To defeat the security system of a UNIX machine and gain {root} privileges thereby
  ee {cracking}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...