Re: What is a 'salami'?

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From: tedrick
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1987 12:21

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>	"The number of Trojan horses, salamis, worms, viruses
>	and other exotic methods are all extremely rare.  What's
>	prevalent is data diddling -- changing data before or as
>	it goes into the system rather than in the computer"
>
>  OK, so what's a "salami"?   

If I remember correctly, its a scheme for stealing fractional
amounts of a cent many times (each theft being a small "slice",
hence "salami").

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