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Protocol definition - hacker
A set of rules governing how communications between two programs have to take place to be considered valid. It describes various ways of achieving and operating compatibility.

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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