(thing) by Shafik Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:15:19
A marker or markers used as a means of identification.

  • In humans "the fingerprint" is the groves and curves found on the tips of the fingers.

  • In Security speak a system can be "fingerprinted" in many ways. Nmap is a scanning tool that uses mainly differentiation in the TCP/IP stacks of OSs to ID them.
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