Dictionary of Information Security

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DAC see Discretionary Access Control

DAME Dark Avenger’s Mutation Engine. See MtE.

Dark Avenger the pseudonym of a Bulgarian virus writer

thought to be responsible for the “Eddie” family of

viral programs (among others) and the polymorphic

code known as the MtE

dark side hacker criminal or malicious hacker, cracker,or

blackhat.The reference is from the Star Wars saga: the

dark side of the Force is evil.The opposite of a

dark-side hacker is a samurai, a specifically technical

type of whitehat.

data diddling generally refers to an activity that makes

small, random, or incremental changes to informa-

tion, rather than complete erasure of files or pur-

poseful changing of data. Use of this term is not

recommended since the phrase is vague and there is

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