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To transfer information from one computer to another over a network or modem. This is commonly done through the Internet nowadays or through a Bulletin Board System (BBS).

See Also: Bulletin Board System (BBS); Internet; Internet Service Provider (ISP); Modem.

Symantec Security Response. Glossary. [Online, July 15, 2004.] Symantec Security Response Website. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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