Dictionary of Information Security

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e-mail or email use email. I’ve studied the various

telecom dictionaries, and they are about equally

split. However, net and tech users (aside from B1FF)

avoid extraneous characters (and, indeed, any extra

characters at all). (If you do not know that email is

“electronic mail,” sending text-based messages

through store and forward computer network sys-

tems, you shouldn’t be reading this book.)

easter egg undocumented function in a program, generally

intended as a prank on or treat for frequent users.

Easter eggs range greatly in scope from mildly

amusing error messages to the full implementation

of a kind of flight simulator that appeared in one

version of Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet program.

Opinion regarding easter eggs varies, from those

who see ...