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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tentacle</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tense.html" title="tense"/><link rel="next" href="tenured-graduate-student.html" title="tenured graduate student"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tentacle</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tense.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="tenured-graduate-student.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tentacle"/><dt xmlns="" id="tentacle"><b>tentacle</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A covert <a href="../P/pseudo.html"><i class="glossterm">pseudo</i></a>, sense 1. An artificial
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identity created in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The
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implication is that a single person may have multiple tentacles. This term
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was originally floated in some paranoid ravings on the cypherpunks list
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(see <a href="../C/cypherpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cypherpunk</i></a>), and adopted in a spirit of irony
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by other, saner members. It has since shown up, used seriously, in the
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documentation for some remailer software, and is now (1994) widely
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recognized on the net. Compare <a href="../A/astroturfing.html"><i class="glossterm">astroturfing</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/sock-puppet.html"><i class="glossterm">sock puppet</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tense.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="tenured-graduate-student.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tense<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>tenured graduate student</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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