The 121 occurrences of wank
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Compare the 'wankometer' described in the {wank} entry; see also {bogus}.
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:wank: /wangk/ [Columbia University: prob.
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by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. 'wank', to masturbate] n.,v.
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May describe (negatively) the act of hacking for hacking's sake ("Quit wanking, let's go get supper!")
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Conversations can also get wanky when there are too many wanks involved.
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When the wankometer overloads, the conversation's subject must be changed, or all non-wanks will leave.
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Compare the 'wankometer' described in the {wank} entry; see also {bogus}.
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:wank: /wangk/ /n.,v.,adj./ [Columbia University: prob.
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by mutation from Commonwealth slang /v./ 'wank', to masturbate] Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness.
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May describe (negatively) the act of hacking for hacking's sake ("Quit wanking, let's go get supper!")
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Conversations can also get wanky when there are too many wanks involved.
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When the wankometer overloads, the conversation's subject must be changed, or all non-wanks will leave.
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Compare the [1684]Troll-O-Meter and the 'wankometer' described in the [1685]wank entry; see also [1686]bogus.
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Node:= W =, Next:[14258]= X =, Previous:[14259]= V =, Up:[14260]The Jargon Lexicon = W = * [14261]W2K bug: * [14262]wabbit: * [14263]WAITS: * [14264]waldo: * [14265]walk: * [14266]walk off the end of: * [14267]walking drives: * [14268]wall: * [14269]wall follower: * [14270]wall time: * [14271]wall wart: * [14272]wallpaper: * [14273]wango: * [14274]wank: * [14275]wannabee: * [14276]war dialer: * [14277]-ware: * [14278]warez: * [14279]warez d00dz: * [14280]warez kiddies: * [14281]warlording: * [14282]warm boot: * [14283]wart: * [14284]washing machine: * [14285]washing software: * [14286]water MIPS: * [14287]wave a dead chicken: * [14288]weasel: * [14289]web pointer: * [14290]web toaster: * [14291]webify: * [14292]webmaster: * [14293]web ring: * [14294]wedged: * [14295]wedgie: * [14296]wedgitude: * [14297]weeble: * [14298]weeds: * [14299]weenie: * [14300]Weenix: * [14301]well-behaved: * [14302]well-connected: * [14303]wetware: * [14304]whack: * [14305]whack-a-mole: * [14306]whacker: * [14307]whales: * [14308]whalesong: * [14309]What's a spline?
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Node:wango, Next:[14431]wank, Previous:[14432]wallpaper, Up:[14433]= W = wango /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level [14434]grovelling going on in a system during some unspecified operation.
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Node:wank, Next:[14436]wannabee, Previous:[14437]wango, Up:[14438]= W = wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj.
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by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. 'wank', to masturbate] Used much as [14439]hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness.
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May describe (negatively) the act of hacking for hacking's sake ("Quit wanking, let's go get supper!")
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Conversations can also get wanky when there are too many wanks involved.
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When the wankometer overloads, the conversation's subject must be changed, or all non-wanks will leave.
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Node:wannabee, Next:[14443]war dialer, Previous:[14444]wank, Up:[14445]= W = wannabee /won'*-bee/ n. (also, more plausibly, spelled 'wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; prob.
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The idea for using these Oilz extracts came while researching Chapter 1, which reveals the tale of the WANK worm crisis in NASA.
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Next to the RTM worm, WANK is the most famous worm in the history of computer networks.
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With WANK, life imitated art, since the term computer 'worm' came from John Brunner's sci-fi novel, The Shockwave Rider, about a politically motivated worm.
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The WANK worm is also believed to be the first worm written by an Australian, or Australians.
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Your System Has Been Officically Wanked.
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Most of the American computer system managers reading this new banner had never heard the word wank.
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And that word, 'WANKED'.
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What did it mean when a system was 'wanked'?
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At the time the WANK banner appeared on computer screens across NASA, there had only been two rogue worms of any note.
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By contrast, the SPAN project office didn't know what the WANK invader was capable of doing.
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In this case, the WANK worm only attacked VMS computer systems.
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NASA was working in an information void when it came to WANK.
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Even as the WANK worm coursed through NASA, it was launching an aggressive attack on DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago.
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They wanted him to analyse the WANK worm.
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It was easy to get lost in the bureaucracy of DEC, which employed more than 125000 people, posted a billion-dollar profit and declared revenues in excess of $12 billion in 1989.10 Such an enormous and prestigious company would not want to face a crisis such as the WANK worm, particularly in such a publicly visible organisation like NASA.
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John McMahon's analysis suggested there were three versions of the WANK worm.
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The WANK worm had invaded the corporation's own network.
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DEC was circumspect about discussing the matter publicly, but the Easynet version of the WANK worm was definitely distinct.
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When the WANK worm invaded a computer system, it had instructions to copy itself and send that copy out to other machines.
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'Your system has officially been WANKED.'
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If its creator had wanted to, he could have programmed the WANK worm to obliterate NASA's files.
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The WANK worm had been instructed to perform several tasks which it didn't execute.
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Nonetheless, the fragmented and partly dysfunctional WANK worm was causing a major crisis inside several US government agencies.
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And what if the WANK worm was just a dry run for something more serious down the track?
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Even though the WANK worm did not seem to be intentionally evil, the SPAN team faced some tough times.
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The message had to be circumspect since no-one knew if the creator of the WANK worm was in fact on the network, watching, waiting.
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McMahon recalled that, some time before the WANK worm attack, a manager had tried to map the system.
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After the worm incident, various computer security experts would hypothesise that the WANK worm had in fact been written by more than one person.
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The first anti-WANK program did just that.
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It quietly sat on the SPAN computers all day long, posing as a NETW_ process, faking out any real version of the WANK worm which should come along.
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Oberman completed an anti-WANK program first and ran it by McMahon.
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McMahon worked up his own version of an anti-WANK program, based on Oberman's program, in preparation for releasing it to NASA.
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At the same time, Oberman revised his anti-WANK program for DOE.
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Your System Has Been Officically Wanked.
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Mutated worms will require modification of this code; however, this program should prevent the worm from running long enough to secure your system from the worms attacks.13 --- McMahon's version of an anti-WANK program was also ready to go by late Monday, but he would face delays getting it out to NASA.
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It was several days before NASA's anti-WANK program was officially released.
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DOE was not without its share of problems in launching the anti-WANK program and advisory across HEPNET.
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He pressed the key, sent out his final anti-WANK report and fled the building.
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Official estimates on the scope of the WANK worm attack were vague, but trade journals such as Network World and Computerworld quoted the space agency as suffering only a small number of successful worm invasions, perhaps 60 VMS-based computers.
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Figures were sketchy, but virtually everyone on the network--all 270000 computer accounts--had been affected by the worm, either because their part of the network had been pulled off-line or because their machines had been harassed by the WANK worm as it tried again and again to login from an infected machine.
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Also by the end of the crisis, NASA and DOE computer network managers had their choice of vaccines, antidotes and blood tests for the WANK worm.
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Regardless of the technical problems, the court challenges and the protesters, the whimsical weather, the natural disasters, and the WANK worm, NASA was still in control of the situation.
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Still, they managed to get copies of anti-WANK out, despite the limitations of the dated SPAN records and the paucity of good logs allowing them to retrace the worm's path.
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He doubted that someone who had gone to all that trouble of creating the WANK worm would let his baby be exterminated so quickly.
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Ron Tencati and Todd Butler had a copy of the new WANK worm ready for McMahon.
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The revised worm's penetration rate was much higher--more than four times greater than the version of WANK released in the first attack.
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'I ran your anti-WANK program, followed your instructions to the letter, and look what happened!'
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This worm didn't just kill the decoy, it also killed any other copy of the WANK worm.
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There were other disturbing improvements to the new version of the WANK worm.
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Finally, almost two weeks after the second onslaught, the WANK worm had been eradicated from SPAN.
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By McMahon's estimate, the WANK worm had incurred up to half a million dollars in costs.
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McMahon never found out who created the WANK worm.
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The WANK worm left a number of unanswered questions in its wake, a number of loose ends which still puzzle John McMahon.
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Did the use of the word 'WANK'--a most un-American word--mean the hacker wasn't American?
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Why had no-one, no political or other group, claimed responsibility for the WANK worm?
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The worm's creator had replaced the original process name, NETW_, with a new one, presumably to thwart the anti-WANK program.
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It was a complete mystery why the creator of the WANK worm, the hacker who launched an invasion into hundreds of NASA and DOE computers, should choose this weird word.
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It is not surprising, for example, that these officials should to this day be pronouncing the 'Oilz' version of the WANK worm as 'oil zee'.
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Yet, NASA and the US Department of Energy were half a world away from finding the creator of the WANK worm.
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The DST wanted to make it clear that the infamous WANK worm attack on the world's most prestigious space agency did not originate in France.
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Tencati was sure he could show the WANK worm attack on NASA originated in France.
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When he developed a timeline of attacks, he found that the GEMPAK machine showed X.25 network connection, via another system, from a French computer around the same time as the WANK worm attack.
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But these remnants of the WANK worm were not dated 16 October or any time immediately around then.
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Yes they told him, you might be able to point to a French system as ground zero for the attack, but our investigations reveal incoming X.25 connections from elsewhere which coincided with the timing of the development of the WANK worm.
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The French had satisfied themselves that it wasn't a French hacker who had created the WANK worm.
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Law enforcement and computer security people in the US and Australia had ideas about just who had created the WANK worm.
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Like many Australian hackers, the creator of the WANK worm had emerged from the shadows of the computer underground, stood momentarily in hazy silhouette, and then disappeared again.
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The Australian computer underground in the late 1980s was an environment which spawned and shaped the author of the WANK worm.
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In 1988, the year before the WANK worm attack on NASA, Australia was on an upswing.
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It was a place in which the creator of the WANK worm could sculpt and hone his creative computer skills.
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Source code for the WANK worm.
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And, after finally successfully hacking Russell Brand's machine at LLNL, they deftly lifted a complete copy of the WANK worm.
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In Brand's machine, they also found a description of how someone had broken into SPAN looking for the WANK worm code, but hadn't found it.