[almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy
wabbit!"]
1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and
elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by
inspiration) from a hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a
Burroughs 5500 at the University of Washington Computer Center. The
program would make two copies of itself every time it was run,
eventually crashing the system.
2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication but
is not a {virus} or {worm}. See {fork bomb} and {rabbit job}, see
also {cookie monster}.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {cookie monster}{fork bomb}{rabbit job}{replicator}]