Akamai even turned the trick into a profitable business by building a network of servers situated within the networks of other companies into a sort of meta-network, which it uses to speed the delivery of its client's content.
This could theoretically be done to trick journalists into running with stories that momentum has changed.
These attempt to trick people into clicking on links and downloading booby-trapped files using cleverly crafted messages.
They trick cells into treating the added DNA as its own, greatly increasing the chance of homologous recombination.
We all have biases that can trick us into making bad decisions on people, as well as ideas.
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Often they are distributed via infected email attachments or disguised as fake software-update alerts to trick people into installing them.
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This technique tries to trick people into revealing useful information that attackers can capitalise on to penetrate deeper into a network.
Most common are so-called phishing attacks, attempts to trick users into divulging their personal details such as passwords or payment information.
By keeping interest rates artificially low, central banks trick entrepreneurs into believing that society is more abstemious than it really is.
Apple has patented a 3D interface that detects and responds to the movements of your eyes to trick them into perceiving depth.
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But Lucy always managed to trick him into giving it a try.
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For the most part, though, he says people reaching out to him are just trying to convince or trick him into giving more clues.
Phishing is where criminals masquerade as a legitimate business or Web site and trick victims into revealing passwords, credit card information and other personal data.
Sites like this will try to trick you into handing over your username and password so criminals are able to go shopping using your money.
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Junk mailers constantly work on narrowing the recipient list to the people most likely to respond and on jazzing up the envelopes to trick them into looking inside.
The play was designed to trick Tebow into throwing an interception.
The U.S. was one big Enron (remember them?) and Obama was orchestrating a conspiracy to trick us into thinking the economy was on the right track.
Ms. PROSE: Well, what I tell my students is the important thing is to trick yourself into finishing a first draft, to do whatever it takes.
It said the spyware tried to trick people into handing over their credit card details as well as installing software to send thousands of spam e-mails.
Small retailers complain that agents from their larger competitors, disguised as customers, trick them into such discounts or giveaways, only to shop them to the authorities.
Walking down the streets of Britain with a British Bulldog really was a rather pathetic attempt to trick us into seeing him and his arguments as patriotic.
If Eve intercepts Bob's pulses and changes the separation between them, she can trick Alice into sending photons that have slightly different polarisations from those that were intended.
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He is locked in constant battle with his Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, who is trying to trick him into accepting a dodgy loan from a foreign nation.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.
To get around the always-on requirement, some players have tinkered with the game's computer code to trick it into thinking it is connected when it is being played offline.
Phishing is generally designed to trick people into giving up personal information (passwords, social security numbers, credit card details, addresses, etc.) -- most commonly for the purpose of identity theft.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.
Some users criticised Twitter's email, suggesting it looked like a "phishing scam" - a message that impersonates an official email in an attempt to trick users into giving up personal details.
Dorkbot, which has been around since 2011, has previously infected both Twitter and Facebook, and sends out messages that use social engineering tactics to trick users into clicking on links.
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