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Tinkerbell program
n. [Great Britain] A monitoring program used to scan incoming network calls and generate alerts when calls are received from particular sites, or when logins are attempted using certain IDs. Named after Project Tinkerbell , an experimental phone-tapping program developed by British Telecom in the early 1980s.