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mockingbird


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mockingbird 
  n  :  long-tailed  gray-and-white  songbird  of  the  southern  United 
  States  able  to  mimic  songs  of  other  birds  [syn:  {mocker}, 
  {Mimus  polyglotktos}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  mockingbird  n.  Software  that  intercepts  communications 
  (especially  login  transactions)  between  users  and  hosts  and  provides 
  system-like  responses  to  the  users  while  saving  their  responses 
  (especially  account  IDs  and  passwords).  A  special  case  of  {Trojan  horse}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  mockingbird 
 
  Software  that  intercepts  communications  (especially  login 
  transactions)  between  users  and  hosts  and  provides  system-like 
  responses  to  the  users  while  saving  their  responses 
  (especially  account  IDs  and  passwords).  A  special  case  of 
  {Trojan  Horse}. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 




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