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• RTM /R-T-M/ [Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm)...
• worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
  A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes....
• worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
  Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms....
• Great Worm, the: n. The 1988 Internet {worm} perpetrated by {RTM}.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare {elvish}, {elder days})....
• RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
  1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• Great Worm n. The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated by RTM.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days)....
• Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontie
  Katie Hafner & John Markoff Simon & Schuster 1991 ISBN 0-671-68322-5 This book gathers narratives about the careers of three notorious crackers into a clear-eyed but sympathetic portrait of hackerdom's dark side....
• RTBM: /R-T-B-M/ [UNIX] imp. Commonwealth Hackish variant of {RTFM}
  expands to `Read The Bloody Manual'. RTBM is often the entire text of the first reply to a question from a {newbie}...