WAR DIALER A program designed to scan phone numbers. For the IBM-PC, ToneLoc by Minor Threat and Mucho Maas is almost universally considered the best; for the Mac, it usually considered to be Assault Dialer by Crush Commander WAREZ Contraction for "software," plural. Often used to refer to pirated software and/or computer games WAREZ D00DZ Pirates. People who remove copy protection from commercial software and distribute it to the underground WAREZ SPEAK A WR1TTEN "LANGUAGE" DEVEL0PED BY U5ER5 0N UNDERGR0UND BB5EZ!! MANY VAR1ANT5 X15T, 5UCH A5 ALTERNAT1NG KAP1TAL5 & 0THERW15E U51NG A5C11 4 PURP05EZ 1T W5A NEVER 1NTENDED 4!! ALL 0F THE THE5E R MADE 2 L00K K00L & B XTREMELY D1FF1CULT 2 REED!! (The previous was converted from plain text with the excellent program Warez 1.1.) _WAR GAMES_ 1983 film about a teenage hacker who gets a hold of the US nuclear defense system. Probably the first film about hackers, and one of the first to even make people aware this was possible. Caused a huge explosion in modem purchases and newbie hackers; a number of influential hackers are embarassed to admit that this film got them to start hacking. Some fairly important hackers took their handles from this film; Professor Falken and the several David Lightmans are an example. It contains some scenes involving phreaking and scanning. Also caused Congress to investigate the possibility of it really happening THE WELL [well.sf.ca.us] Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link. Internet connected BBS set up by the makers of the hippy Whole Earth Catalog. Though it’s rather small, it’s membership includes SF writers, scientists, and hackers (Phiber Optik was on the WELL for a while.) Almost was destroyed (at least that’s what the media said) by Kevin Mitnick WERNERY, STEFFAN German hacker, high school dropout and early member of the Chaos Computer Club; serves as recruitment officer and PR man WHACKY WALLY see CONTROL C WHOLE EARTH ‘LECTRONIC LINK see WELL WILSON, ALLEN see WING WINDOWS NT I have no idea what NT stands for, but it's Microsoft's high-end version of Windows. It is very powerful and fast WINDOWS 95 Microsoft's upgrade to Windows 3.11 that even further rips off the MacOS. Received lots and lots of press, much to the users of other OS's chagrin WINDOZE Derogatory term for Windows. Another is "Wintendo." Coined by PC users who thought that Windows was a waste of RAM and storage. Sometimes referred to as "Doze," because Doze is not deserving of Win THE WING Handle of Allen Wilson. Founding member of MOD. Supposedly one of the more criminal members, and was implicated in doing damage to the Internet WINTEL Term that refers to IBM-PC compatibles. May replace the term "IBM-PC" because that is such a misnomer. [From "Windows," the operating system most IBM-PCs use, and "Intel," the company that designs and manufactures the chips used in IBM-PCs.] _WIRED_ Extremely hip, glossy magazine intended for hip, glossy, young, rich professionals; the contributing writers list looks like a who's who in science fiction and computer journalism. Very uneven; I've read some pieces that were total shit, and others that were very interesting- the articles by noted SF writers are usually cool, but beyond that there is a good chance you're paying $5 for 238 pages of lame ads, pathetically ill-thought out predictions of the future and unconcealed drooling over technological innovations WORMER A term for illegal hackers to try and make the media leave the original word alone. Almost never used. [From "worm," the virus-like program that eats up memory and moves from computer to computer but doesn’t infect programs.] WRAP The practice of using a computer for longer than an eight hour period. The original meaning of this was to "wrap" from daytime to nighttime and then back to daytime while programming a computer, but this sort of activity is becoming more and more rare