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BOF

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BOF
(1) (Beginning Of File) The status of a file when it is first opened or when an instruction or command has reset the file pointer. See BOT.

(2) (Birds Of a Feather session) An informal session or presentation. For example, in an IETF BOF, attendees explore a technology to determine if a working group should be established. See Internet Engineering Task Force.
BOF - /B-O-F/ or /bof/ 1. Birds Of a Feather.

2. Boring Old Fart.


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Stonesoft has patented a method for performing the recognition using a much smaller piece of information--a part of a specific pointer that has to be included in a bof attack code as the basis for the fingerprint.
The plop: a close cousin to the bof but with added sound-effects.
British Telecom first developed BOF in the early 1980s, and it was used first commercially in Europe and then Japan.
 
 
 
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