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Concepts & Terms

Concepts & Terms

During the course of the project, a number of concepts and terms were mentioned in passing that could not be covered in detail because of the very short amount of time available during the Excelerator program. This section is a list of those items along with definitions and/or pointers to further information.

Term Definition
Backdoor
BookStack BookStack is an open source, opinionated (it has a pre-defined organizational structure based on shelves, books, chapters, and pages) wiki application that you can host on your own server. It is great for collecting documentation and notes, and is the current application that runs the infrastructuresquad.com site. More information available at: https://www.bookstackapp.com
DDOS
DHCP
DNS
Linksys
Mobile router ("mob rtr" on diagram)
Phishing
RPi
Switch ("sw" on diagram)
Sawing off your tree branch
VLAN
cleartext
ciphertext
asymmetric encryption
symmetric encryption
containers: OS vs Docker
Wireguard
OpenVPN
Tailscale
traceroute, mtr
ICMP
TTL
Wireshark
tcpdump
IP spoofing
Pastebin
Proxmox
packet sniffing
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and URI
Viscosity
Syncthing
API
REST
SQL
SQLite
n8n
ping
NTP
tunnel
SIEM
virtual machine (VM)
proxy (forward & reverse)
Yubikey
ssh
telnet
netcat or nc