{"id":528,"date":"2005-02-17T16:38:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T16:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=528"},"modified":"2005-02-17T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T16:38:55","slug":"a-parents-primer-to-computer-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"A parent's primer to computer slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Microsoft's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/athome\/security\/children\/kidtalk.mspx\">A parent's primer to computer slang<\/a>, we can learn all about that hip new jive lingo all those crazy computer whiz-kids are using!<\/p>\n<p>FOr example, here are some \"Leet<sup>*<\/sup> words possibly indicating <b>illegal activity<\/b>\" !<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>'warez' or 'w4r3z': Illegally copied software available for download.\n<li>'h4x': Read as 'hacks,' or what a computer hacker does.\n<li>'sploitz' (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by hackers.\n<li>'pwn': A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term that means to dominate. This could also be spelled '0\/\/n3d' or 'pwn3d,' among other variations. Online video game bullies or '<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/athome\/security\/children\/griefers.mspx\">griefers<\/a>' often use this term.\"\n<\/ul>\n<p>* - information-age slang is commonly referred to as <i>leetspeek<\/i>, or <i>leet<\/i> for short.<\/p>\n<p>Dig?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Microsoft's A parent's primer to computer slang, we can learn all about that hip new jive lingo all those crazy computer whiz-kids are using! FOr example, here are some \"Leet* words possibly indicating illegal activity\" ! 'warez' or 'w4r3z': Illegally copied software available for download. 'h4x': Read as 'hacks,' or what a computer hacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}