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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