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spyware

noun

Etymology

From spy + -ware.

  1. derived from *speḱ-✻
  2. derived from *spehōną✻
  3. derived from *spehōn✻
  4. derived from espier
  5. inherited from spien
  6. formed as spyware — “spy + -ware”

Definitions

  1. Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user.

    • In the end of the 90s we call^([sic]) this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spyware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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