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H

Ha Ha Only Serious

Hack

Hack On

Hack Up

Hacker

Hacker code of ethics

Hacker Ethic, The

Hacker vulnerability testing tools

Hackers (and Unauthorized Users)

Hacking

Hacking X For Y

Hackish

Hair

Hairy

HAKMEM

Hakspek

Half-Duplex Operation

Halftone Characteristic

hallenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

Hammer

Hamming Distance

Hamster

Hand geometry scanning

Handle

Handled

Handler

Handling Caveats

Handling Restrictions

Handshaking Procedure

Handshaking Procedures

Hand-shaking stages

Hang

Happily

Haque

Harden

Hardware Asset Management

Hardware Handshaking

Hardware Isolation Mechanisms

Hardware Protection Mechanisms

Hardware Security

Has The X Nature

Hash

Hashed Message Authentication Code

Hashing

Hat

Hazard

HCF

HD

HDLC

HDM

Header

Header checksum

Header destruction

Head-On Collision

Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA[AuQ3][AuQ3])

Hertz

Hex

Hexadecimal directory traversal attack

Hexit

HF

HHOK

HHOS

Hidden Sections

Hierarchical Computer Network

Hierarchical Development Methodology (HDM)

Hierarchically Synchronized Network

High Order Language

High Risk Environment

High-Level Control

High-Level Data Link Control

High-Level Language

Highly

Hing

HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act)

Hirsute

History Of Information Security

HLL

HMAC

HMAC (key-Hashed Message Authentication Code)

Hobbit

Hog

HOIS

HOIST

HOL

Hole

Homeland Security Act of 2002

Hook

Hop

Hose

Hosed

Host

Host assessment tools

Host To Front-End

Host To Front-End Protocol

Hostile Cognizant Agent

Hostile Intelligence Sources

Hostile Threat Environment

Hosting companies

Housekeeping Procedures

HP-SUX

HSM

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

HTML body parts

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

HTTP proxy server

Https

Huff

Human Intelligence

Human Interface Functions

HUMINT

Humma

Hung

Hungus

HUS

HUSK

Hybrid Computer

Hybrid TCP/IP-OSI architecture

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Hysterical Reasons

Hz

Handwave

v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic.
n. The act of handwaving. "Boy, what a handwave!" If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly. " or "Obviously. " or "It is self-evident that. ", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is bogus. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.