Introduction to Hacking, Part V

Glossary of Terms compiled by euDaemon euDaemon@email.ro The Liberation of Information Specialist Team L_I_S_T@email.ro Okay, I figured that if you are reading this series, you probably don't have an all-encompassing knowledge of computer terminology. So I decided to try and help you guys out (I'm such a nice guy) and compile a glossary for you. ADC        Analog-to-Digital Converter ADN        Advanced Digital Network ADSL        Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line AI        Artificial Intelligence ANSI        American National Standards Institute AOL        America Online ARP        Address Resolution Protocol ASCII        American Standard Code for Information Interchange ATM        Asynchronous Transfer Mode BASIC        Beginners BBS        Bulletin Board System BFT        Binary File Transfer BPS        Bits Per Second CD-ROM        Compact Disc Read Only Memory CERT        Computer Emergency Response Team CFML        Cold Fusion Markup Language CGI        Common Gateway Interface COM        COMmunications CPU        Central Processing Unit CRC        Cyclical Redundancy Check CRT        Cathode-Ray Tube CSS        Cascading Style Sheets DDN        Defense Data Network DES        Data Encryption Standard DHTML        Dynamic HTML DLL        Dynamic Link Library DNS        Domain Name System DSS        Digital Signature Standard EMAC        Editing MACros EUI        End-User Interface FAT        File Allocation Table FTP        File Transfer Protocol FUD        Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation GDI        Graphical Device Interface GUI        Graphical User Interface HD        Hard Drive HIMEM        HIgh MEMory HTML        HyperText Markup Language HTTP        HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTPS        HTTP Secure IE        Internet Explorer IETF        Internet Engineering Task Force IMAP        Internet Message Access Protocol IP        Internet Protocol ISDN        Integrated Services Digital Network ISP        Internet Service Provider K or Kb        KiloBytes LAN        Local Area Network LCD        Liquid-Crystal Display MP3        MPEG level 3 MPEG        Motion Picture Experts Group MS        MicroSoft MS-DOS        MicroSoft Disk Operating System NCSA        National Center for Supercomputing Applications NFS        Network File System NIC        Networked Information Center NNTP        Network News Transfer Protocol NS        NetScape NSA        National Security Agency- also called No Such Agency OCX        OLE Custom Control OLE        Object Linking and Embedding OS        Operating System OSP        Online Service Provider PGP        Pretty Good Privacy POP        Post Office Protocol PPP        Point-to-Point Protocol RAM        Random Access Memory ROM        Read-Only Memory RSA        A data security company SLIP        Serial Line Internet Protocol SMTP        Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SSL        Secured Sockets Layer TCP/IP        Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol UUCP        Tool for transferring files, sending email, and executing commmands Unix-to-Unix CoPy UUEE        Unix-to-Unix Encode UUENCODE    Method of converting binary into ASCII format URL        Uniform Resource Locator VRML        Virtual Reality Markup Language WAN        Wide Area Network WWW        World Wide Web XML        eXtensible Markup Language Y2K        Year 2000 issue ZIP        compressed file Information is the key to success. -eD