evil bit Humerous proposal in RFC3514 to make life easy for firewalls by setting a TCP packet bit to indicate if it was transmitted by an evil entity. "If the bit is set to 1, the packet has evil intent". It's a satire on how people look for simple technical solutions to what are really complex social problems (the problem of evil on the internet). Also see the XMPP equivalent XEP-0076 "Malicious Stanzas".