iron box n.
[Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote
connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified
shell restricting the cracker's
movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files designed to keep
him interested and logged on. See also back door, firewall machine, Venus flytrap, and Clifford Stoll's
account in "The Cuckoo's
Egg" of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography in Appendix C). Compare
padded cell, honey pot.
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ironmonger n.
[IBM] A hardware specialist (derogatory). Compare sandbender, polygon pusher.
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ISO standard cup of tea n.
[South Africa] A cup of tea with milk and one teaspoon of
sugar, where the milk is poured into the cup before the tea.
Variations are ISO 0, with no sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of
sugar; and so on. This may derive from the "NATO standard" cup of
coffee and tea (milk and two sugars), military slang going back
to the late 1950s and parodying NATO's relentless bureacratic
drive to standardize parts across European and U.S.
militaries.
Like many ISO standards, this one has a faintly alien ring in
North America, where hackers generally shun the decadent British
practice of adulterating perfectly good tea with dairy products
and prefer instead to add a wedge of lemon, if anything. If one
were feeling extremely silly, one might hypothesize an analogous
`ANSI standard cup of tea' and wind up with a political situation
distressingly similar to several that arise in much more serious
technical contexts. (Milk and lemon don't mix very well.)
[2000 update: There is now, in fact, a `British Standard
BS6008: How to make a standard cup of tea.' - ESR]
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