RE: A parent's primer to computer slang

["Paul Kurczaba" <seclists () securinews com>]

Seriously, doesn't Microsoft has anything better to do... 

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[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Berend-Jan
Wever
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:14 AM
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Subject: [Full-disclosure] A parent's primer to computer slang

M$ is informing the public about scriptkiddies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx but
unfortunately, their information is incorrect:
"Characters of similar appearance can be used to replace the letters they
resemble." --> The only two words in 311715h written with a $ are M$ and
Micro$oft.
"sploitz" (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by
hackers. --> A vulnerability is called a "vuln" and a tool (mostly a program
or script) exploiting the vuln is called an exploit or "sploit".

Cheers,
SkyL1n3d.

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