Smurf

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  smurf /smerf/ n. 1. [from the soc.motss newsgroup on Usenet, after some
     obnoxiously gooey cartoon characters] A newsgroup regular with a
     habitual style that is irreverent, silly, and cute. Like many other
     hackish terms for people, this one may be praise or insult depending on
     who uses it. In general, being referred to as a smurf is probably not
     going to make your day unless you've previously adopted the label


     yourself in a spirit of irony. Compare {old fart}. 2. [techspeak] A ping
     packet with a forged source address sent to some other network's
     broadcast address. All the machines on the destination network will send
     a ping response to the forged source address (the victim). This both
     overloads the victim's network and hides the location of the attacker.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  smurf
       
           /smerf/ (From the {news:soc.motss} {Usenet}
          newsgroup, after some obnoxiously gooey cartoon characters) A
          newsgroup regular with a habitual style that is irreverent,
          silly, and cute.  Like many other hackish terms for people,
          this one may be praise or insult depending on who uses it.  In
          general, being referred to as a smurf is probably not going to
          make your day unless you've previously adopted the label
          yourself in a spirit of irony.
       
          Compare {old fart}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-10-25)