A profession that turns normal people into whiskey drinking, swearing, paranoid, disheartened curmudgeons with no hope for the future of computers or humanity.

Anatidaephobia is defined as a pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck. The anatidaephobic individual fears that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck watches.

Anatidaephobia is derived from the Greek word "anatidae", meaning ducks, geese or swans and "phobos" meaning fear.

Shorted for Information Security, used by elite Security Researchers as a form of symbolism, often these elitist, will use this word within a tweet to broadcast to a collective audience. Use this with precaution, as it may offend some of these professional elitists.