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Pop-Off Ads "The latest in infuriating Web advertising. A new browser window pops up in the corner of your PC screen. You can't close the window without first repositioning it, increasing the odds you'll read its content.
Googlewhacking "A game played with the popular search site Google. Players compete to find two-word queries - "Googlewhacking slacker," for example - that yield just one hit from the index's 3 billion pages. Sometimes played using a strict point system. "Googlewhackers have become 'unpleasantly competitive.'" (CNET)
Voice Theft "Accessing security systems using a person's recorded or synthesized voice. AKA "playback attack."
Odor Bombs "Proposed nonlethal weapons that release extraordinarily foul odors, causing the target (say, a rioting crowd) to flee in disgust. The media was quick to lampoon the project: "Pentagon Forms Stink Tank to Develop Offensive Smells." (New York Post)
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
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