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gruber device

A mechanism to defeat a security system through the unintended use of fall-backs or exception paths that are not widely considered during development. Inspired by Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber character in the movie Die Hard (1988), who arranges for the uninterruptible power supplies securing the vaults at Nakotomi Plaza to be cut by causing the police to invoke their terrorist response procedures.

"The circuits that cannot be cut are automatically cut in response to a terrorist incident. You asked for a miracle, Theo, I give you the F-, B-, I..."
"This box is using distributed TACACS. I'll need a Gruber Device to make it fall-back to static password."
"Maybe try pulling the WAN?"
by keepalive February 11, 2020
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Little Devilz

A mainly white teenage street gang created in Ireland in February 2020.

Crimes - loansharking, shoplifting, underage drinking, underage smoking, drug trafficking, firearm trafficking and vandalism.

The gang supports communism.
Man 1: Hey, mate, did you see those kids the other day?
Man 2: The ones who beat up the college guy?
Man 1: Yep. They're the Little Devilz, a communist street gang.
Man 2: I saw them out my place the other day, white kids screaming the n word at a middle aged man

Man 1: Lmao
by I is a man April 3, 2020
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Red Devil

When a woman’s body releases tissue it no longer needs. This tissue comes from the uterus, which is where a baby (fetus) can develop in the female body. A woman's period.
I was going to play Fallout 76 today, but the Red Devil is coming.
by Bill Nye The Neologist June 19, 2020
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armageddon devil

A being of status equal to lucifer himself that causes misery to those around him... This being tends to pick on the weak and those who wave around their strength and creates a situation that makes a failure of them.
The Armageddon Devil is to blame for my downfall
by Devil Syndicate July 7, 2020
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The devils braid

When you braid your buddy’s asshole hair when he’s asleep into a weave basket so it’s stops there shit
Did you hear that jaydon did the devils braid on Brandon? He was stuck on the toilet for hours screaming!
by JaydonM04 August 6, 2020
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The Devil

The Devil is an angel who led a rebellion against his father, God and was banished to hell were he ruled as king over the souls of the damned.
Man #1 : Woah he's acting like The Devil
by Twitch_Midgeee August 23, 2020
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