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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