social engineering
Term used among crackers and samurai for cracking techniques that rely on
weaknesses in wetware rather than software; the aim is to trick people into
revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's
security. Classic scams include phoning up a mark who has the required
information and posing as a field service tech or a fellow employee with an
urgent access problem. See also the tiger team story in the patch entry.
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social science number
(IBM) A statistic that is content-free, or nearly so. A measure derived via
methods of questionable validity from data of a dubious and vague nature.
Predictively, having a social science number in hand is seldom much better than
nothing, and can be considerably worse. Management loves them.
See also numbers, math-out, pretty pictures.
(1994-11-04)
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socket
<networking> The Berkeley Unix mechansim for creating a virtual
connection between processes. Sockets interface Unix's standard I/O with its
network communication facilities. They can be of two types, stream
(bi-directional) or datagram (fixed length destination-addressed messages). The
socket library function socket() creates a communications end-point or socket
and returns a file descriptor with which to access that socket. The socket has
associated with it a socket address, consisting of a port number and the local
host's network address.
Unix manual page: socket(2).
(1995-01-31)
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Socket 1
x86 processor socket
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Socket 370
<hardware, standard, processor> (PGA370) A physical and electrical
specification for a motherboard processor socket. Socket 370 uses a square SPGA
ZIF socket with 370 pins, arranged 37x37 (sometimes described as 19x19).
Intel originally designed Socket 370 for PPGA Celeron processors. Newer Socket
370 motherboards additionally support FC-PGA Celeron and Pentium III processors.
The difference between the two versions is electrical; some pins are used
differently and voltage requirements have been changed from Intel's VRM 8.2 to
VRM 8.4. In addition, Celeron processors require a 66 MHz front side bus (FSB),
and Pentium III processors require a 100/133 MHz FSB.
Some older Socket 370 motherboards support VRM 8.4 and variable bus speeds, so
adapters are available that convert the socket pinout to allow FC-PGA processors
to work.
VIA's Cyrix III processor was designed to work with Socket 370 motherboards.
Intel Celeron Processor in PPGA form factor - Integration.
Pentium III Processors - Design Guidelines.
(2000-08-26)
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Socket 4
x86 processor socket
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Socket 5
x86 processor socket
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Socket 6
x86 processor socket
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Socket 7
<hardware, standard> A physical and electrical specification for the x86
processor socket matching the pins on Pentium microprocessors manufactured by
Intel, and compatibles made by Cyrix, AMD and others. Any CPU chip conforming to
this specification can be plugged into any conforming motherboard.
Supported processors include: 2.5V - 3.5V Pentiums 75-233 MHz, AMD K5 through
K6, Cyrix 6x86 (and MX) P120 - P233.
Socket 7 uses a SPGA socket, either a 296 pin LIF or a 321 pin ZIF arranged as
37x37 or 19x19 (depending on who you speak to!).
See also Super 7.
Intel's Pentium II processor uses Slot 1 mounting.
[Pin-out?]
(1999-08-29)
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Socket 8
<hardware, standard> A physical and electrical specification for the x86
processor socket matching the pins on a Pentium Pro microprocessor.
Socket 8 uses a dual pattern PGA/SPGA LIF/ZIF socket with 387 pins, arranged
24x26.
(1999-08-04)
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SOCKS
<security> A security package that allows a host behind a firewall to use
finger, FTP, telnet, Gopher, and Mosaic to access resources outside the firewall
while maintaining the security requirements.
[The Security FAQ, Usenet newsgroups comp.security.misc, comp.security.unix,
alt.security].
(1995-01-31)
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SOCRATIC
An early interactive learning system (not a language(?)) developed at Bolt,
Beranek & Newman.
[Sammet 1969, p. 702].
(1994-11-04)
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