CPIP Short for Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol. Using birds to send datagrams from one network node to another, where they are scanned and sent on electronically. A group of Norwegian Linux-heads pulled it off. Why? Because they could.
Hackademy A school - recently opened in Paris and currently under police surveillance - that teaches students how to break into computer systems.
Wetware Exploits Human weaknesses that can be taken advantage of to hack or sabotage computer security systems. As in, "No system is immune to wetware exploits" (Slashdot). Also a type of email-borne virus in which the user is the destructive agent. A warning message tells the user to search out and remove a virus file. The file is usually a component of the Windows OS, so its removal causes system damage.
Smart Border Name given to a new initiative to upgrade border surveillance technologies and procedures in light of terrorist traffic between Canada and the US.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
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