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Underground – (1997 book), by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange >

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Glossary and Abbreviations ∞

• AARNET

  • Australian Academic Research Network

• ACARB

  • Australian Computer Abuse Research Bureau, once called CITCARB

• AFP

  • Australian Federal Police

• Altos West

  • German chat system and hacker hang-out, connected to X.25 network and run by Altos Computer Systems, Hamburg

• ANU

  • Australian National University

• ASIO

  • Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

• Backdoor

  • A program or modification providing secret access to a computer system, installed by a hacker to bypass normal security. Also used as a verb

• BBS

  • Bulletin Board System

• BNL

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)

• BRL

  • Ballistics Research Laboratory (US)

• BT

  • British Telecom

• CCITT

  • Committee Consultatif Internationale Telegraph et Telephonie: Swiss telecommunications standards body (now defunct; see ITU)

• CCS

  • Computer Crime Squad

• CCU

  • Computer Crimes Unit (Australian Federal Police)

• CERT

  • Computer Emergency Response Team

• CIAC

  • Computer Incident Advisory Capability: DOE’s computer security team

• CITCARB

  • Chisholm Institute of Technology Computer Abuse Research Bureau (now defunct. See ACARB)

• COBE

  • Cosmic Background Explorer project: a NASA research project

• DARPA

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)

• DCL

  • Digital Command Language, a computer programming language used on VMS computers

• DDN

  • Defense Data Network

• DEC

  • Digital Equipment Corporation

• DECNET

  • A network protocol used to convey information between (primarily) VAX/VMS machines

• DEFCON

  • (a) Defense Readiness Conditions, a system of progressive alert postures in the US
  • (b) the name of Force’s computer program which automatically mapped out computer networks and scanned for accounts

• DES

  • Data Encryption Standard, an encryption algorithm developed by IBM, NSA and NIST

• Deszip

  • Fast DES Unix password-cracking system developed by Matthew Bishop

• Dial-up

  • Modem access point into a computer or computer network

• DMS-100

  • Computerised telephone switch (exchange) made by NorTel

• DOD

  • Department of Defense (US)

• DOE

  • Department of Energy (US)

• DPP

  • Director of Public Prosecutions

• DST

  • Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire– French secret service agency

• EASYNET

  • Digital Equipment Corporation’s internal communication network (DECNET)

• GTN

  • Global Telecommunications Network: Citibank’s international data network

• HEPNET

  • High Energy Physics Network: DECNET-based network, primarily controlled by DOE, connected to NASA’s SPAN

• IID

  • Internal Investigations Division. Both the Victoria Police and the AFP have an IID

• IP Internet Protocol (RFC791)

  • a data communications protocol, used to transmit packets of data between computers on the Internet

• IS

  • International Subversive (electronic magazine)

• ISU

  • Internal Security Unit: anti-corruption unit of the Victoria Police

• ITU

  • International Telecommunications Union, the international telecommunications standards body

• JANET

  • Joint Academic Network (UK), a network of computers

• JPL

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory–a California-based NASA research centre affiliated with CalTech

• LLNL

  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)

• LOD

  • Legion of Doom

• Lutzifer West

  • German computer, connected to the X.25 network, which had a chat facility

• MFC

  • Multi Frequency Code (Group III): inter-exchange telecommunications system used by Telstra (Telecom)

• MILNET

  • Military Network: TCP/IP unclassified US DOD computer network

• MOD

  • Masters of Deception (or Destruction)

• Modem Modulator De-modulator

  • A device used to transmit computer data over a regular telephone line

• NCA

  • National Crime Authority

• Netlink

  • A Primos/Dialcom command used to initiate a connection over an X.25 network

• NIST

  • National Institute of Standards (US)

• NIC

  • Network Information Center (US), run by DOD: a computer which assigned domain names for the Internet.

• NRL

  • Naval Research Laboratory (US)

• NSA

  • National Security Agency (US)

• NUA

  • Network User Address: the ‘telephone’ number of a computer on an X.25 network

• NUI

  • Network User Identifier (or Identification): combined username/password used on X.25 networks for billing purposes

• NorTel

  • Northern Telecom, Canadian manufacturer of telecommunications equipment

• PABX

  • Private Automatic Branch Exchange

• PAD

  • Packet Assembler Disassembler–ASCII gateway to X.25 networks

• PAR

  • PAR?–command on PAD to display PAD parameters

• RMIT

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

• RTG

  • Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, space probe Galileo’s plutonium-based power system

• RTM

  • Robert Tappan Morris (Jr), the Cornell University student who wrote the Internet worm, also known as the RTM worm

• Scanner

  • A program which scans and compiles information, such as a list of NUAs

• SPAN

  • Space Physics Analysis Network: global DECNET- based network, primarily controlled by NASA

• Sprint

  • US telecommunications company, an X.25 network provider

• Sprinter

  • Word used by some Australian and English hackers to denote scanner. Derived from scanning attacks on Sprint communications

• Sprintnet

  • X.25 network controlled by Sprint communications

• Sun

  • Sun Microsystems–a major producer of Unix workstations

• TCP

  • Transmission Control Protocol (RFC793): a standard for data connection between two computers on the Internet

• TELENET

  • An X.25 network, DNIC 3110

• Telnet

  • A method of connection between two computers on the Internet or other TCP/IP networks

• Trojan

  • A program installed by hackers to secretly gather information, such as passwords. Can also be a backdoor

• Tymnet

  • An X.25 network controlled by MCI, DNIC 3106

• Unix

  • Multi-user computer operating system developed by AT&T and Berkeley CSRG

• VAX

  • Virtual Address Extension: series of mini/mainframe computer systems produced by DEC

• VMS

  • Virtual Memory System: computer operating system produced by DEC and used on its VAX machines

• WANK

  • Worms Against Nuclear Killers: the title of DECNET/VMS-based worm released into SPAN/DEC/HEPNET in 1989

• X.25

  • International data communications network, using the X.25 communications protocol. Network is run primarily by major telecommunications companies. Based on CCITT standard # X.25

• Zardoz

  • A restricted computer security mailing list

Copyright ∞

Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use.

Copyright (c) 1997, 2001 Suelette Dreyfus & Julian Assange

This HTML and text electronic version was arranged by Julian Assange <proff at iq.org> and is based on the printed paper edition.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim ^[ 2 ] While the core of the contents have been kept, I have changed formatting to make this suitable to the web, added links and notes/annotations. copies of this publication provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies and distribution is without fee.

More requirements can be found on the preface to the electronic edition.

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