Glossary: lore

343 entries of kind lore, listed alphabetically.

• :-) (the first emoticon)
• "5 GHz Wi-Fi is always better"
• "a VPN makes you anonymous"
• "deleting a file erases it"
• "forced password changes make you safer"
• "incognito mode makes you anonymous"
• "MAC addresses are unique and permanent"
• "more bandwidth means a faster connection"
• "NAT is a firewall"
• "public Wi-Fi means instant hacking"
• "quantum computers will break all encryption"
• "the padlock means the site is safe"
• "there is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer"
• "Tor is only for criminals"
• @ (the at sign in email)
• 2600 Magazine2600: The Hacker Quarterly
• 418 I'm a teapotHyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP)
• 42 (the Answer)
• 8.88.8 Computer Security Conference - Chile's technical hacking conference, wrapped in pop culture
• a lista do Anchises (Brazilian security profiles)
• a patchy server
• Ada Lovelace
• Adi Shamir
• Adiel Akplogan
• Al Gore
• Alan Turing
• Aleph One and Smashing the Stack
• Alessandro Volta
• Alexander Graham Bell
• all your base are belong to us
• ALOHAnet
• ALPACA
• AltaVista
• ANATEL
• André-Marie Ampère
• AppleTalkAppleTalk (Apple networking protocol suite)
• Ariane 5 Flight 501
• Babel Fish
• Back Orifice
• Barbara Liskov
• Barnaby Jack
• baz
• BEAST
• BHack
• bikesheddingParkinson's Law of Triviality
• Bill Cheswick
• bitbinary digit
• BitKeeper (and the birth of Git)
• blue box
• BlueKeep
• Bob Kahn
• Bob Metcalfe
• bohrbug
• BREACH
• BSides São PauloSecurity BSides São Paulo (Co0L BSidesSP)
• bug (the first computer bug)
• byte
• Campus PartyCampus Party - the tent-city technology festival
• Captain Crunch (the 2600 Hz whistle)
• Captain Midnight
• cargo cult programming
• CGI.br
• Chaos Computer ClubChaos Computer Club (CCC)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
• chkrootkit
• Citizenfour (2014)
• Claude Shannon
• Clifford Cocks
• Clippy
• Code Red
• Conficker
• Countdown to Zero Day (Zetter, 2014)
• Craig Newmark
• CRIME
• CryptoRaveCryptoRave - the crowdfunded cryptoactivism marathon of São Paulo
• Cyberpunk (Hafner and Markoff, 1991)
• Dan Kaminsky
• Daniel J. Bernstein
• Daniel Karrenberg
• Danny Cohen
• David Clark
• David Farber
• DECnetDECnet (Digital Equipment Corporation network protocols)
• Deep Blue
• DEF CONDEF CON hacker conference
• Dennis Ritchie
• Deviant Ollam
• DigiNotar (2011)
• Donald Davies
• Douglas Comer
• Douglas Engelbart
• DragonJARDragonJAR Security Conference - Colombia's leading hacker con, deliberately in Spanish
• DROWN
• Edward Weston
• EFnet (Eris Free Net)
• EkopartyEkoparty - Latin America's biggest hacking conference (Buenos Aires, since 2001)
• ELIZA
• Elizabeth Feinler
• EMBRATEL
• endianness (On Holy Wars)
• EternalBlue
• FAPESP
• FenasoftFeira Nacional de Software - Brazil's giant 1990s computing fair at the Anhembi
• foo / bar
• FREAK
• FUBARFouled Up Beyond All Recognition
• Gambiarra
• Garoa Hacker ClubeGaroa Hacker Clube
• Georg Ohm
• George Boole
• Ghost in the Wires (Mitnick, 2011)
• Glenn Ricart
• Go To Statement Considered Harmful
• googol
• Gordon Moore
• Grace Hopper
• GREASE
• Guglielmo Marconi
• H2HCHackers to Hackers Conference
• hack
• Hackers (1995)
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Levy, 1984)
• halt and catch fire (HCF)
• Hans Christian Ørsted
• Heartbleed
• Heinrich Hertz
• heisenbug
• hello, world
• HITBHack In The Box - the deep-knowledge conference born in Kuala Lumpur
• Howard Frank
• ICCC demonstration
• illegal number
• Interop
• Ira Fuchs
• J.C.R. Licklider
• Jaap Akkerhuis
• James Clerk Maxwell
• James Ellis
• James Prescott Joule
• James Watt
• Jean-Charles Peltier
• Jeitinho
• Jim McKie
• John Logie Baird
• John von Neumann
• Jon Postel
• Jun Murai
• Kalpana
• Kanchana Kanchanasut
• Karen Banks
• Katie Moussouris
• Kees Neggers
• Ken Thompson
• Kevin Mitnick
• Kevin Poulsen
• kludge
• KRACK
• Larry Roberts
• Lee de Forest
• left-pad
• Léon Foucault
• Leonard Adleman
• Leonard Kleinrock
• Leslie Lamport
• Libera.Chat and the freenode exodus
• Log4Shell
• Logjam
• Lucky Thirteen
• Luigi Galvani
• Luiz Eduardo dos Santos
• Mafiaboy (Michael Calce)
• Margaret Hamilton
• Marisa Bellisario
• Martin Hellman
• Meltdown
• Michael Faraday
• Midori (Microsoft's post-Windows research OS)
• Mike Jensen
• Mirai
• Moonlight Maze
• Mr. Robot (2015-2019)
• Mt. Gox
• Nelson Brito
• Nelson Murilo
• Neuromancer (Gibson, 1984)
• NIC.br
• Nii Narku Quaynor
• Nikola Tesla
• Nimda
• NotPetya
• NullconNullcon - India's flagship hacker conference, grown from the null community
• O Rei da Internet (2026)
• off-by-one error
• OpenWrt
• Operation Aurora
• Operation Sundevil
• Paul Baran
• Paul Vixie
• Peter Eckersley
• Phrack
• Piet Beertema
• POODLE
• Prilex
• PrintNightmare
• Project MAC
• ProxyLogon
• ProxyShell
• Pwn2Own
• pwned
• Raccoon
• Radia Perlman
• Ralph Merkle
• Randy Bush
• Ray Tomlinson
• Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
• Reflections on Trusting Trust
• reserva de mercadoBrazilian informatics market reserve (1984-1992)
• RFC 1149 (IP over Avian Carriers)
• RoadsecRoadsec - Latin America's largest hacker festival
• Robert Taylor
• ROBOT
• ROCA
• Ron Rivest
• Room 641A
• Rowhammer
• rubber duck debugging
• SampaSecSampaSec (Sao Paulo CitySec meetup)
• Samuel Morse
• SATAN (the 1995 scanner panic)
• Schrems II
• Scooter (AltaVista's crawler)
• Security BSides
• Security Leaders
• Shellshock
• ShmooConShmooCon - the affordable-on-purpose Washington hacker con (2005-2025)
• six degrees of separation
• SLOTH
• SNAFUSituation Normal, All Fouled Up
• Sneakers (1992)
• Snow Crash (Stephenson, 1992)
• somebody set up us the bomb
• Spectre
• Spring4Shell
• SQL Slammer
• Stephen Wolff
• Steve Crocker
• Steven Bellovin
• Stuxnet
• Sweet32
• Takedown (Shimomura and Markoff, 1996)
• Tarek Kamel
• TCP/IPTransmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
• TELEBRÁS
• TELESP
• Terrapin
• Teus Hagen
• the 'room 404' myth
• the 414s
• the 500-mile email
• the 640K quote
• the Anchises security events calendar
• The Art of Deception (Mitnick, 2002)
• the Blaster worm
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• the CentOS Stream change (2020)
• the Clipper chip
• the Crypto Wars
• the Cuckoo's Egg
• the DAO hack
• the DEF CON badge
• the DNC hack (2016)
• the ENIAC programmers
• the ether / aether
• the evil bit
• the Fail Whale
• the first .com domain
• the first banner ad
• the first email
• the first spam email
• the first tweet
• the first web page
• the GNU Manifesto
• the Great Split (IRC, 1996)
• the Green Card spam
• the Hacker Manifesto
• the Homebrew Computer Club
• the ILOVEYOU virus
• the IOCCCInternational Obfuscated C Code Contest
• the Jargon File
• the Jeep hack
• the Kaminsky DNS flaw
• the KGB hack (Karl Koch)
• the Knight Capital glitch
• the Konami Code
• the L0pht testimony
• the lawsuit that created ZIP
• the leap second
• the Mars Climate Orbiter
• The Matrix (1999)
• the Max Headroom incident
• the Melissa virus
• the Morris Worm
• the Mother of All Demos
• the Pentium FDIV bug
• the Pwnie Awards
• the RSA SecurID breach (2011)
• the Shadow Brokers
• The Shockwave Rider (Brunner, 1975)
• the Silk Road
• the Slashdot effect
• the Sony Pictures hack (2014)
• the STJ ransomware attack (2020)
• the Story of Mel
• the Streisand effect
• the Target breach (2013)
• the Tetrade (Brazilian banking trojans)
• the Trojan Room coffee pot
• the Turing test
• the Wall of Sheep
• the WANK worm
• the WinRAR licence
• Therac-25
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Titan Rain
• Tosconf
• TROOPERSTROOPERS - ERNW's Heidelberg conference, Europe's practitioners' favorite
• Underground (Dreyfus and Assange, 1997)
• UNICAMP
• USP
• Van Jacobson
• Vint Cerf
• WannaCry
• WarGames (1983)
• Werner Zorn
• Whitfield Diffie
• Wietse Venema
• William Crookes
• Xerox PARC
• Y2Kthe Year 2000 problem
• yak shaving
• YSTSYou Shot the Sheriff
• Yvonne Marie Andrés
• Zerologon

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