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Entry: vadding
originally posted by Antius

[last edit 2/5/2004 10:40 PM by Antius - edited 2 times]

/vad'ing/ n. [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.e., ADVENT), used to avoid a particular admin's continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the `secret' parts of large buildings -- basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like. A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to synthesize vadding keys. The verb is `to vad'. This term dates from the late 1970s, before which such activity was simply called `hacking'; the older usage is still prevalent at MIT.

From the Jargon file http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/
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