skidiot

n. an unsophisticated or unskilled self-styled black-hat hacker or cracker who uses computer- and network-intrusion software made by others; a script kiddie. Also skiddiot. Subjects: English, Technology

Etymological Note: script kiddie + idiot

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Citations: 2001 [Covenant (covenant@joelamb.freeserve.co.uk)] Usenet: rec.games.mame (Feb. 25) “Re: What’s the name of this game?”: I unreservedly apologise for even trying to engage this ‘Skidiot’ in even the simplest *reasoning process* as to why NG hierarchies are set up in the first place. 2003 [method] Zeropaid (May 18) “safest p2p program”: The reason BayTSP can get on KaZaA is because there’s a few skiddiot projects already out there for the FastTrack protocol. 2004 [Alistair Tonner Alistair@nerdnet.ca] Netfilter mail list (Apr. 18) “TARPIT question (more info)”: It was my thought that if you used the psd module, and then passed packets that fit it to a separate chain, you could TARPIT them there, thus managing to minimize the use of resources on your box, whilst frustrating the scanner/skiddiot/twit on the other end.

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Skidiot was coined by the Cross Family in the late 1970"s as a term to describe someone who lacked the common sense to comprehend an obvious event or concept.

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by robert cross 04 May 06, 0315 GMT

You mean your family had a homonym with a completely different meaning, right? Because obviously your word is unrelated to this entry.

by Grant Barrett 04 May 06, 0319 GMT