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- Computer security [r]: Computer security is a branch of technology known as information security as applied to computers. [e]
- Cyberpunk [r]: A philosophy and theme used in fiction, fashion, music, and technological design. [e]
- Free Software Foundation [r]: Massachusetts-based non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement. [e]
- GNU [r]: A free operating system modeled after AT&T's UNIX, originally announced by Dr. Richard Stallman on September 27th, 1983. The acronym GNU stands for "GNU is not Unix" and is intended to be a play on words. [e]
- Malware [r]: A term created from the words "malicious" and "software", used to describe undesirable or harmful software and changes to a computer. [e]
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology [r]: A private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. [e]
- Microsoft MS-DOS [r]: The command line operating system, originally bought and modified to run the original IBM PC. [e]
- Miscreant [r]: One who enters a computer or computer network without authorization by the owner or administrator, regardless of the motivation for entry [e]
- Open source software [r]: Software where the source code is freely modifiable and redistributable. [e]
- Richard Stallman [r]: Software engineer and hacker who founded the GNU project and Free Software Foundation. [e]
- Source code [r]: Human-readable code which a compiler turns into a compiled piece of software or an interpreter runs. [e]
- TUX web server [r]: A high performance World Wide Web server that can be run partially inside the Linux kernel, in order to serve web pages faster than traditional web servers such as Apache. [e]
- Tux [r]: The name of the penguin, official logo and cartoon mascot for the Linux computer operating system. [e]
- Wetware hacker [r]: Person who experiments with biological materials to advance knowledge, and does so in a spirit of creative improvisation. [e]
