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Buzzword Bonanza
Elias Levy, SecurityFocus 2000-05-01

Security companies can make headlines by using the right jargon, even when it's wrong.

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Re: A definition from an observer 2000-05-03
Anonymous
Seeing your little debate on what a Back Door actually is I decided to look elsewhere...

The Jargon File (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html) defines a backdoor as:

"[common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers. The motivation ...

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