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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>vadding</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="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="V7.html" title="V7"/><link rel="next" href="vanilla.html" title="vanilla"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">vadding</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="V7.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vanilla.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="vadding"/><dt xmlns="" id="vadding"><b>vadding</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/vad´ing/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.e.,
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<a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a>), used to avoid a particular
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<a href="../A/admin.html"><i class="glossterm">admin</i></a>'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the
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game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert
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exploration of the ‘secret’ parts of large buildings —
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basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels,
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and the like. A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to
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synthesize vadding keys. The verb is <span class="firstterm">to
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vad</span> (compare <a href="../P/phreaking.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaking</i></a>; see also
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<a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a>, sense 9). This term dates from the late
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1970s, before which such activity was simply called ‘hacking’;
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the older usage is still prevalent at MIT.</p><p>The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is <span class="firstterm">elevator rodeo</span>, a.k.a. <span class="firstterm">elevator surfing</span>, a sport played by wrasslin'
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down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then
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exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator
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hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop
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experiments). Kids, don't try this at home!</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="V7.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vanilla.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">V7 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vanilla</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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