leaky heap = L = leech

leapfrog attack n.

Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g., downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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