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cyber-, comb. form Chiefly prefixed to nouns. Originally: forming words relating to (the culture of) computers, information technology, and virtual reality, or denoting futuristic concepts. Later also: spec. forming terms relating to the Internet.
Brit. |ˈsʌɪbə|, U.S. |ˈsaɪbər|
[Shortened ‹cybernetic adj.; in formations relating specifically to the Internet, probably influenced by cyberspace n.
Formations are found from the 1960 s onwards.]
Affix. Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words, as cyberchondriac, cybercubicle, cyberfeminist, cyberfriend, cybernocracy, cybersnob, etc.; cyber-sheepishly adv.
1966New Scientist 17 Mar. 709/2 Starting from the fact that computers are already used in income tax administration, he goes on to suggest the coinage of a new word ‘cybernocracy’. 1982D. Adams Life, Universe & Everything xi. 63 Zaphod had spent most of his early history lessons plotting how he was going to have sex with the girl in the cybercubicle next to him. 1986G. Benford & D. Brin Heart of Comet (1987) iv. 281 She..spent a few hours each day linked to her cyberfriend. 1993Newsweek 6 Sept. 46/4 Presumably such cybersighs reflect the deeper on-line intimacies to which we have no access. Ah, the networks of love. 1994Eng. Today Oct. 17/1 Your Net address says volumes about who you are, about what community you hang in and whether you're a cybersnob or a cyberhick. 1994i-D Oct. 18/1 Look out..for Australia's cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix. 1995.net Feb. 62/3 These companies really are a different kettle of cyberfish altogether. 1996Guardian 11 Mar. 2/1 When Mr Hannah..referred to the cost of ‘IT systems’ Mr Ashdown asked if he meant information technology. Industrial tribunals, Vincent conceded cyber-sheepishly. 1999Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 May 11/2 The legal aspects of cyber-franchising were not clearly defined. 2000Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 4 Jan. Type in any disease on your computer and page after page of descriptions, symptoms..will cascade across your screen. Hypochondriacs are becoming cyberchondriacs. 2007N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Jan. i. 22/1 As with many relationships born on the Internet, neither was telling the truth... His cyber-lover from West Virginia was also in her 40's..but had adopted her daughter's identity.
In more established compounds. cybercash n. funds used in electronic financial transactions, esp. over the Internet; (also spec.) money stored on an electronic smart card.
1993Worth Sept. 60 (heading) How to make *cybercash. 1994Guardian 30 June (Online Suppl.) 8/3 A more simple keying reader reveals what's on the [Mondex] card. It's cybercash, paramoney, telemoney, offline digital money, paperless banking or your ticket to the infobahn. 2000Calgary Herald (Nexis) 4 Dec. d1 Suite101 promised to put some money in an online wallet so each test participant could do some real shopping with cyber cash!
cybercop n. colloq. (a) Science Fiction a cybernetically engineered or modified police officer; (b) a police officer who deals with cybercrime.
In quot. 1989 as the title of a computer game.
1989PC/Computing 1 July 190/1 *Cyber Cop List Price: $29.95 128 K RAM, CGA/EGA graphics. 1992San Diego Union-Tribune 24 Sept. (Night & Day section) 3/2 The malleable cybercop in ‘Terminator 2’ walks through prison bars. 1993P. Ouellette Deus Machine xvi. 218 His first task is to find the file section that gives the modems the information they need to make calls over the international satellite network. But now he hits a barrier erected by the Cyber Cops. 2002D. Verton Hacker Diaries iii. 61 He was one of the FBI's most experienced cybercops and had actually helped develop many of the Bureau's computer-crime investigative techniques.
cybercrime n. crime or a crime committed using computers or the Internet.
1991Underground Beat Spring–Summer 14 (title) *Cybercrime. Essays by John Perry Barlow on hackers and crackers. 1994U.S. News & World Rep. 14 Mar. 71/3 To combat such cybercrimes, the FBI drafted eight agents with widely varying backgrounds in computer technology. 2005Computer Weekly 19 Apr. 43/3 Cybercrime threatens to undermine the confidence of consumers doing business online.
cybercriminal n. a person who commits crime using computers or the Internet.
1993Re: Hacker v. Cracker in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet newsgroup) 15 Aug. On Usenet and in the hacker community,..*cybercriminals/cyberterrorists/cyberscum are called ‘crackers’. 2000South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 5 May (Business section) 10/1 Cyber-criminals have moved in to grab a piece of the action—on the Internet and in the exploding telecommunications field. 2007Independent 19 Mar. 6/5 Cybercriminals are using an increasingly sophisticated array of techniques to steal confidential information.
cyberlaw n. law or a law relating to Internet and computer offences, esp. fraud, copyright infringement, etc.
1992Re: Connection in bit.listserv.lawsch-l (Usenet newsgroup) 29 Jan. I'm interested in patent or intellectual property, but would also like to do some *cyber-law, so to speak. 1994CompuServe Mag. Mar. 19/1 Other hot cyberlaw issues include..the debate over who owns the rights to online materials. 2006Z. K. Shalhoub & S. L. Al Qasini Diffusion E-commerce in Developing Econ. v. 260 Few countries in the developing world have drafted cyberlaws.
cybermall n. a commercial web site through which a range of goods may be purchased; a virtual shopping mall on the Internet.
1993Canad. Business Dec. 65 (heading) In the *cybermall, parking's no problem. 2005Business Week (Electronic ed.) 7 Mar. 28 Rakuten..has a larger stock-trading arm, runs Japan's No. 1 cybermall, and gets roughly twice Livedoor's traffic.
cyberporn n. pornography viewable on a computer screen, esp. accessed on the Internet.
1989Re: ‘Reality you have dialed is no longer in Service’ in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Dec. *Cyberporn actors and actresses will be people who take great pleasure from the work they do. 1992N.Y. Times 15 Nov. ix. 3/1 Conceived of as a sort of Silicon Valley-meets-smut publication—Lisa Palac, the editor, prefers the term ‘cyberporn’—Future Sex is dedicated to the proposition that ‘computer science is changing the way we think about sex’. 2007G. Stamatellos Computer Ethics x. 88 Cyberporn makes parents distrustful of the Internet.
cybersecurity n. security relating to computer systems or the Internet, esp. that intended to protect against viruses or fraud.
1989S. B. Furber VLSI RISC Archit. & Organisation App. D. 298 We consider transmission security in relation to the risk of physical destruction of system elements and concerns about *cyber security. 2006Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Sept. 22/2 Cybersecurity needs immediate, sustained attention.
cyberspeak n. jargon relating to computers or the Internet.
1991Vancouver Sun 31 Aug. d3 (heading) A beginner's guide to *Cyberspeak. 2006Eng. Jrnl. 95 32/1 ‘Now I'm ROTFL!’ (That's..‘rolling on the floor laughing’ for those of us not versed in cyberspeak.)
cybersurfer n. a person who (habitually) uses or browses the Internet (cf. surfer n. Additions b).
1993Sacramento (Calif.) Bee 1 Oct. (Scene section) 8/1 Bulletin boards and online services are already huge and it's just going to get bigger. People who make fun of *cybersurfers are just jealous or too stupid to know better. 2007Information Week 30 July 56/1 Are you part of the blogosphere? By that I mean not just a cybersurfer or search engine junkie, but an active participant in the ongoing online dialogue.
cyberterrorism n. the unlawful (and often politically motivated) use of computers or information technology to cause disruption, fear, or financial loss.
1994South Bend (Indiana) Tribune 2 Jan. f10/1 *Cyberterrorism. This concept sees criminals of all types..tapping into American computers, possibly bringing the country's entire economy to a standstill. 2005Independent 24 Mar. 35/1 (headline) Our society is at grave risk from cyber-terrorism.
cyber-thriller n. a novel, film, etc., in the thriller genre having a plot which deals with cybercrime or (futuristic) technology.
1992Cyber Movie in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Jan. The movie is called Freejack. It's apparently a *cyberthriller. 1993Sunday Oregonian 29 Aug. b8/2 (heading) Cyber-thriller rich with imagination. 2008Hollywood Reporter 18–20 Jan. 16 This taut, savvy cyber-thriller makes for one of the better Net flicks.
cyberwarfare n. the infiltration or disruption of computer or other information technology systems for strategic or military purposes.
1995Agence France Presse (Nexis) 21 Aug. The growing dependence on computer networks has made them targets for ‘*cyberwarfare’ and terrorist hackers. 1999Washingtonian Apr. 47/1 Cyberwarfare will replace the blitzkrieg of the 20th century. 2007Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 97 1 Was it cyberwarfare—a virtual sortie by People's Liberation Army hackers?
cyberworld n. = cyberspace n.; (also) a computer-generated environment, a virtual reality.
1991H. Rheingold Virtual Reality ii. v. 110 By 2010, that first [virtual] room of Sutherland's will have multiplied itself into a virtual cosmos. It is impossible to say, in today's terms, how vast that future *cyberworld will be. 1993Macworld Dec. 77/1 In Spectre Supreme, you play a cybertank in a cyberworld where all kinds of bad guys are trying to cyberkill you. 2004J. Moore Dot.homme (2005) xv. 194 Each facing disappointment..as they embark on meetings with strangers they have encountered on the Internet. Hoping that, this time, cyberworld has come up trumps. |