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Black Hole definition - hacker
A black hole is a region in the Internet not reachable from anywhere else. Black Holes typically result from configuration errors or attacks to the routers that attach the black-holed area to the Internet.

See Also: Attack; Internet.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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