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tentacle
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. A covert pseudo , sense 1. An artificial identity created in cyberspace
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for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The implication is that a single
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person may have multiple tentacles. This term was originally floated in some
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paranoid ravings on the cypherpunks list (see cypherpunk ), and adopted in a
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spirit of irony by other, saner members. It has since shown up, used
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seriously, in the documentation for some remailer software, and is now
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(1994) widely recognized on the net. Compare astroturfing , sock puppet.
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