15 lines
2.5 KiB
HTML
15 lines
2.5 KiB
HTML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
|
||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ice</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="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="ICBM-address.html" title="ICBM address"/><link rel="next" href="idiot.html" title="ID10T error"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ice</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ICBM-address.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="idiot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ice"/><dt xmlns="" id="ice"><b>ice</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's
|
||
cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for ‘Intrusion
|
||
Countermeasure Electronics’] Security software (in Gibson's novels,
|
||
software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even
|
||
literally kill the intruder). Hence, <span class="firstterm">icebreaker</span>: a program designed for cracking
|
||
security on a system.</p><p>Neither term is in serious use yet as of late 2003, but many hackers
|
||
find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the
|
||
future. In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with
|
||
‘ICE’, an acronym for “<span class="quote">in-circuit
|
||
emulator</span>”.</p><p>In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers
|
||
and computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic Experiment)
|
||
in 1994. ICE is a consortium to promote uniform international access to
|
||
strong cryptography.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ICBM-address.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="idiot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ICBM address </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ID10T error</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
|