2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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smurf
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/smerf/ , n. 1. [from the soc.motss newsgroup on Usenet, after some
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obnoxiously gooey cartoon characters] A newsgroup regular with a habitual
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style that is irreverent, silly, and cute. Like many other hackish terms for
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people, this one may be praise or insult depending on who uses it. In
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general, being referred to as a smurf is probably not going to make your day
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unless you've previously adopted the label yourself in a spirit of irony.
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Compare old fart. 2. [techspeak] A ping packet with a forged source address
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sent to some other network's broadcast address. All the machines on the
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destination network will send a ping response to the forged source address
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(the victim). This both overloads the victim's network and hides the
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location of the attacker.
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