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Trojan horse
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n. [coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards] A malicious
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security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a
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directory lister, archiver, game, or (in one notorious 1990 case on the Mac)
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a program to find and destroy viruses! See back door , virus , worm , phage
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, mockingbird.
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