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U. S. Controlled Facility
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U. S. Controlled Space
U. S. -Controlled Space
U. S. Nongovernmental Source
U. S. Person
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UBD
UDP datagram
UDP port scanning
UID (User ID)
UIRK
UIS
UK
Umask
UN*X
Unapproved Software
Unauthorized Disclosure
Unauthorized Disclosure Of Information
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Unauthorized User
Unavailability
Unbundling
Uncertainty Calculus
Unclassified
Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information
Unclassified Information
Unclassified Telecommunications Security
Uncontrolled Access Area
Undefined External Reference
Under The Hood
Underlap
Undesired Signal Data Emanations
Undocumented Feature
UNICODE directory traversal attack
Uniform Encoding
Uniformed security personnel
Uninteresting
Unit Element
Unit Interval
UNIX
UNIX Brain Damage
UNIX Conspiracy
UNIX Weenie
UNIX:
Unixism
Unnecessary services
Unnumbered Command
Unnumbered Response
Unprivileged User
Unprotect
Unprotected
Unreliable
Unsuccessful Call
Unswizzle
Untrusted Applications
Untrusted Element
Untrusted network
Untrusted Process
Unwind The Stack
Unwind-Protect
Up
Up-Converter
Update
Updating
Upgrade
Upgrade Parameter
Uplink
Upload
UPP
Upthread
Uptime
Urchin
URL
URL filtering
Usable Line Length
Usage
Use policy
Useful Line
Usenet
User
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
User ID
User ID (UID)
User Identification
User Information
User Information Bit
User Information Block
User Partnership Program
User Profile
User/process Interface
User-Obsequious
USG UNIX
Utility Program
Utility Routine
UTSL
UUCPNET
UV
Uninteresting
  • adj. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it. 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code. Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. *Real* hackers (see toolsmith) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them -- thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See WOMBAT, SMOP; compare toy problem, oppose interesting.