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/vading/ , n. [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.e., ADVENT ), used to avoid a particular admin 's continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the secret parts of large buildings basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like. A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to synthesize vadding keys. The verb is to vad (compare phreaking ; see also hack , sense 9). This term dates from the late 1970s, before which such activity was simply called hacking ; the older usage is still prevalent at MIT. The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is elevator rodeo , a.k.a. elevator surfing , a sport played by wrasslin' down a thousand-pound elevator car with a 3-foot piece of string, and then exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (such as elevator hopping, shaft exploration, rat-racing, and the ever-popular drop experiments).
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