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H

Ha Ha Only Serious

Hack

Hack On

Hack Up

Hacker

Hacker code of ethics

Hacker Ethic, The

Hacker vulnerability testing tools

Hackers (and Unauthorized Users)

Hacking

Hacking X For Y

Hackish

Hair

Hairy

HAKMEM

Hakspek

Half-Duplex Operation

Halftone Characteristic

hallenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

Hammer

Hamming Distance

Hamster

Hand geometry scanning

Handle

Handled

Handler

Handling Caveats

Handling Restrictions

Handshaking Procedure

Handshaking Procedures

Hand-shaking stages

Hang

Happily

Haque

Harden

Hardware Asset Management

Hardware Handshaking

Hardware Isolation Mechanisms

Hardware Protection Mechanisms

Hardware Security

Has The X Nature

Hash

Hashed Message Authentication Code

Hashing

Hat

Hazard

HCF

HD

HDLC

HDM

Header

Header checksum

Header destruction

Head-On Collision

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA[AuQ3][AuQ3])

Hertz

Hex

Hexadecimal directory traversal attack

Hexit

HF

HHOK

HHOS

Hidden Sections

Hierarchical Computer Network

Hierarchical Development Methodology (HDM)

Hierarchically Synchronized Network

High Order Language

High Risk Environment

High-Level Control

High-Level Data Link Control

High-Level Language

Highly

Hing

HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act)

Hirsute

History Of Information Security

HLL

HMAC

HMAC (key-Hashed Message Authentication Code)

Hobbit

Hog

HOIS

HOIST

HOL

Hole

Homeland Security Act of 2002

Hook

Hop

Hose

Hosed

Host

Host assessment tools

Host To Front-End

Host To Front-End Protocol

Hostile Cognizant Agent

Hostile Intelligence Sources

Hostile Threat Environment

Hosting companies

Housekeeping Procedures

HP-SUX

HSM

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

HTML body parts

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

HTTP proxy server

Https

Huff

Human Intelligence

Human Interface Functions

HUMINT

Humma

Hung

Hungus

HUS

HUSK

Hybrid Computer

Hybrid TCP/IP-OSI architecture

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Hysterical Reasons

Hz

Humor, Hacker

n. A distinctive style of shared intellectual humor found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics Fascination with form-vs. -content jokes, paradoxes, and humor having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time).
Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron).
Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises.
Fascination with puns and wordplay.
A fondness for apparently mindless humor with subversive currents of intelligence in it -- for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humor that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favored.
References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koans. See also filk, retrocomputing, and A Portrait of J. Random Hacker in Appendix B. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.