geofence (tech n.): a virtual boundary that lets software respond when its device enters or leaves a particular area. e.g. disabling wi-fi, e.g. sending an alert. My engineering lecturer claimed that the DoD disabled his car with one of these.
Stingray (policing n.): phone snooper; IMSI-catcher. Emulates a real phone tower to locate and identify nearby phones. In common use in large US cities.
Moravec's paradox (AI n.): the surprising fact that abstract cognition has proved much easier to emulate in AI than has basic, instinctive visual and motor processing. Haut en bas.
slamming (white-collar crime n./v.): taking control of a phone owner's account without permission. Done by actual companies, somehow.
benefit of clergy (medieval n.): right to be tried by the Church instead of the magistrate; effectively, the right to not be executed for your crimes. Originally only granted to clerics, hence the name, but eventually to anyone who could read.
skurf (sports n.): water-skiing on a surfboard.
dark ad (data n.): a targeted ad with differing content depending on your data exhaust. Tabloid newspapers have always been dark ads.
to breadboard (maker v.): to prototype; to experiment with a rough solderless version of a circuit design.
URM (US n.): under-represented minority.
Pump and dump (finance n.): inflating the price of stock you own through false advertising, then selling it at the higher price. Post-dump, the price falls and investors lose everything. See also chop stocks.
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