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network address
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. (also net address ) As used by hackers, means an address on the network
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(see the network ; this used to include bang path addresses but now always
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implies an Internet address). Net addresses are often used in email text as
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a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to
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know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each
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others' legal monikers. Display of a network address (e.g. on business
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cards) used to function as an important hacker identification signal, like
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lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans. In
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the day of pervasive Internet this is less true, but you can still be fairly
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sure that anyone with a network address handwritten on his or her convention
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badge is a hacker.
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