gadget
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gadget englanniksi
A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
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Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
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Any consumer electronics product.
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A sequence of code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
- A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem. Used in constructing compsci|reductions.
''We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.''
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