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Covert Channel - technical definition

A communication channel whose existence is hidden or covert. Crackers create covert channels by layering a virtual connection on top of existing data ­communications.

See Also: Crackers.

Graham, R. Hacking Lexicon. [Online, 2001.] Robert Graham Web Site. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/documentation/hacking-dict.html.

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