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life is finding ways to make phree fone calls. This is a terrible thing to call someone. Much worse than <>.

<>: Shortlist for oblivion. By analogy to hotlist.

<>: Convention, or maybe it was Conference-- nobody cares any more. A Con is a gathering of haqrz. There are several every year. The most famous is Hacking at the End of the Universe, held by the former Hac-tic in Amsterdam. Next is Hacking On Planet Earth, HOPE, and two infamous Cons are in Austin TX-- SummerCon, in the summer, and HoHoCon, figure it out.

<>: Haqr wannabes who don't figure out how to do things for th emselves. They copy down procedures for hacking computers or fones and follow the instructions, like using a cookbook. Everybody has to start out this way. Get over it.

<>: A pirate whose raw material is the society itself. A <> specialist, who takes the <> of the culture on wild detours.

<>: Somebody who breaks the copy protection on computer games or intrudes into other people's computers. Or invades cyberspace in strange ways. Or pirates any of the media. See <> and <> and <>.

<>: Freezing your body (or just your head, in the budget plan) so that you can be revived (or provided with a whole-body transplant) at some time in the future when 1. they can do that sort of thing, and 2. they really WANT to do that sort of thing for frozen heads like you. See <>.

<>: Cryptology is the study of <>. Cryptography is doing it. See <> for a full rundown.

<>: 1. A citizen of cyberspace. 2. A citizen of cyberspace who wears mirrorshades indoors, at night.

<>: The planetary Net linked by phonelines and satellites, whose nodes are computers and human beings. An online metaverse that's now realler than what's outside your window.

<>: A tourist on the info highway. A <>, a Web Browser. If artists and nerds are sort of squatting or homesteading their homepages, cyber-yups create theirs as investment property. <>: A guerrilla in the war for privacy and lots more encryption>>.

<>: A <> of people interested in cryptology and cryptography.

<>: Antisocial. Evil. Weird. Someone who dares things you wouldn't, or couldn't.

<>: This is supposed to be plural. These data. If you don't wanna deal with that, see <>.

<>: What cyberpunks in NEUROMANCER typed on and jacked in through... like a keyboard with phonejacks that plug into YOU.

<>: For the specs for deep geek, see Chapter Three.

<>: <> to the <>.

<>: Cultural hijacking. Taking something that has a usual meaning and making it play your way. A detournement is a cultural <>.

<>: Wrangling over standards and protocols, as in the <>. Dharma is Buddhist for the principles of operation for the universe. Lots of <> are Buddhists, Buddhist-wannabes, or jack-Buddhists. <>: The Philosopher's Stone of the nineties. Or maybe the Brooklyn Bridge. And good luck with it.

<>: Do it yourself. A part of haqr mind, see Chapter Eight.

<>: This is part of the eddress that humans use. If you subscribe to an online service, like US Online, your domain eddress is theirs. Your whole eddress is whatever your handle is-- say skulldrool-- plus the server's domain name, like so: skulldrool@usol.com. Top level domain names are countries, like .au for australia, or categories, like .com, for company, .org for organization, .gov for the government, .mil for the military, etc. Domain names can be bought, and maybe they can be hacked. For example, if I had a military-industrial complex, I might hack an eddress like dark.satanic.mil.

<>: This is a file in your home directory within UNIX that people can read when they <> you. Your dot.plan file (actually it's just .plan) is where you put your advertisements for yourself. A typical dot.plan might start with a motto or a fave quote, such as, "In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." Followed by as intriguing and flattering a profile of yourself as you can whomp together.

<>: This is your online signature, your digigraph, which you can tack onto the end of all your online appearances. A dot.sig is usually made up of thought-provoking quotes and ascii graphics. While somebody has to <> you to get your <>, everybody is forced to see your dot.sig every time they read your postings or get email from you. Think of your dot.sig as a billboard advertising yourself.

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