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Tinkerbell program
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Tinkerbell program /n./ [Great Britain] A monitoring program
used to scan incoming network calls and generate alerts when calls
are received from particular sites, or when logins are attempted
using certain IDs. Named after `Project Tinkerbell', an
experimental phone-tapping program developed by British Telecom in
the early 1980s.
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