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Host definition - hacker
A computer that permits users to communicate with other computers on a network by providing a service. Individual users access these services through application programs such as electronic mail (email), FTP, and telnet.

See Also: Electronic Mail or Email; FTP (File Transfer Protocol); Network; Telnet.

QUT Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support. Network Glossary. [Online, July 17, 2003.] QUT Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support Website. http://www.its.qut.edu.au/network/glossary.jsp.

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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