tinkerbell program

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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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