CHA: Short for "click here, asshole." Refers to oversimplified navigation hints created for computer users who are assumed to be stupid. "We need some CHA to explain how the pulldown menus work."
Ejectrode: A tool (usually made from a bent paper clip) used for manually ejecting disks from a disk drive.
Leaky Reply A message sent to an unintended recipient by a sender using the Reply to All option in an email program. Leaky replies may contain information about the recipient that he or she was not supposed to receive.
Prairie Dogging: When someone yells or drops something loudly in an office, prompting everyone's head to pop up over their cubicle walls to see what's going on.
Stasi-ware: What David Banisar of EPIC calls Hewlett-Packard's proposed International Cryptography Framework, which would require the use of government-approved "policy activation tokens" to enable the encryption system. Stasi refers to the former East German secret police.
Tip o' the nightcap to: Bill Burdick, Ted Cheney, Bill Frischling, and Gardner IV.
