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derf /derf/ v.,n.

[PLATO] The act of exploiting a terminal which someone else

has absentmindedly left logged on, to use that person's account,

especially to post articles intended to make an ass of the victim

you're impersonating. It has been alleged that the term

originated as a reversal of the name of the gentleman who most

usually left himself vulnerable to it, who also happened to be

the head of the department that handled PLATO at the University

of Delaware.

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