war ganging

war ganging
 n.— «There is a practice called “war ganging” where if someone has a wireless laptop, they can come and park outside your home, and if you don’t have a router on the system to protect transmissions, they can monitor what you are doing and use your IP address to commit crimes/» —“Online fraud crimes soaring” by Troy Anderson Daily News (Los Angeles, California) Oct. 12, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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