In computer software, a time bomb is part of a computer program that has been written so that it will start or stop functioning after a predetermined...
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A time bomb (or a timebomb, time-bomb) is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. The use or attempted use of time bombs has been for various...
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A logic bomb is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met...
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In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available...
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zip bomb will be detected. It is often employed to disable antivirus software, in order to create an opening for more traditional malware. A zip bomb allows...
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Look up time bomb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A time bomb is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. Time bomb, Time Bomb, or Timebomb...
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Windows Genuine Advantage (section Time bomb)
been considered genuine which has made some people compare WGA to time bomb software. Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 have removed this behavior and reverted...
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system that was not associated with a particular piece of application software, typically a web browser. Keychain was later made a standard part of Mac...
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A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...
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Upgrade (redirect from Software upgrade)
Retrieved 2008-07-30. Associated Press (2006-04-20). "Official: Software glitch, not bomb, shut airport". NBC News. Retrieved 2008-07-30. Ben-Yossef, Gilad...
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Billion laughs attack (redirect from YAML bomb)
which is aimed at parsers of XML documents. It is also referred to as an XML bomb or as an exponential entity expansion attack. The example attack consists...
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Bomb Balls hit a player. Each player is allowed to have up to 4 bombs stacked at a time. Gunbound was developed and is maintained by South Korean developer...
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Consequences of the Atomic Bomb. AJ Software & Multimedia. Retrieved 21 July 2023. Goncharov. Beginnings of the Soviet H-Bomb Program. Zaloga, Steve (2002)...
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commercial software. Carnivore grew out of an earlier FBI project called "Omnivore", which itself replaced an older undisclosed (at the time) surveillance...
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id Software LLC (/ɪd/) is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer...
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"The Land Before Time Preschool Adventure: Software". Amazon. Retrieved February 13, 2016. "Land Before Time Animated Toddler Time Adventure". Amazon...
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Charles Simonyi (section Intentional Software)
1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect. He introduced the graphical user interface to Bill Gates for the first time who later described it as the...
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Malware (redirect from Malicious software)
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network...
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First-person shooter (redirect from Real Time Strategy Shooter)
compete with them and failed every time for diverse reasons where another challenger LucasArts succeeded and Bungie Software made FPS games featuring a complex...
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Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was sold...
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Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (category Muse Software games)
retrieve a bomb that operatives have hidden inside the bunker, place it outside the room where Hitler is holding a meeting, and escape before the bomb explodes...
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Scribe (markup language) (section Time-bomb)
avoid deactivation, users paid the software company, which then issued a code that defused the internal time-bomb feature. Richard Stallman saw this as...
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GNU Radio (category Amateur radio software for Linux)
organization created the PyBOMBS (Python Build Overlay Managed Bundle System) project. Software-defined radio Universal Software Radio Peripheral Wikimedia...
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Computer program (redirect from Software program)
programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also includes documentation and other intangible components. A computer...
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Calorimeter (redirect from Bomb calorimeter)
vessel wall. A bomb calorimeter is a type of constant-volume calorimeter used in measuring the heat of combustion of a particular reaction. Bomb calorimeters...
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Edward Yourdon (category Software engineering researchers)
1944 – January 20, 2016) was an American software engineer, computer consultant, author and lecturer, and software engineering methodology pioneer. He was...
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launched on Intel Macs without Rosetta. Advocates of Watson made by Karelia Software, LLC claim that Apple copied their product without permission, compensation...
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BSD licenses (redirect from Berkeley Software Distribution licenses)
behavior" and are not "legal time-bombs", unlike copyleft licenses. The BSD License allows proprietary use and allows the software released under the license...
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NuCalc (category Plotting software)
NuCalc, also known as Graphing Calculator, is a computer software tool made by Pacific Tech. It can graph inequalities and vector fields, and functions...
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Spyware (redirect from Anti-spyware software)
Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is any malware that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity...
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