The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions

(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).

Special Characters

These are characters that never appear on keyboards for the obvious reason that they have no useful function. For example, the utterly useless characters h and f are special characters. So is D. I hope you’re impressed. Some of these characters purport to derive from dead languages and scripts, while others are clearly jokes played on PC users by developers at Microsoft.

Carrier

A word that describes an individual that spreads diseases and starts epidemics. Also “carrier signal”: a message from such an individual; and “carrier grade”: the score such an individual achieved in a school test.

IT Security Products

Computer products that are designed to powerfully and irreversibly bolt the stable door after the horse has fled.

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