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Tinkerbell program
2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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.