Did You Know?
The iconic arcade game “Pac-Man” was released as “Puck Man” in Japan due to the titular character’s hockey puck-like shape–but when released in English speaking countries, it was changed to Pac-Man so that the arcade cabinets couldn’t be easily vandalized into displaying something obscene.
Today's Tech Term
Doxing
Doxing refers to the process of gathering, retrieving, and hacking of information via online public sources, social media profiles, reverse phone lookups, search engines, and other records in order to publish the information about a given individual or organization for the purpose of breaking anonymity, embarrassment, coercion, etc.
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