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Easter Egg

Easter Egg: Hidden functionality within an application program, which becomes activated when an undocumented, and often convoluted, set of commands and…

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Hidden functionality within an application program, which becomes activated when an undocumented, and often convoluted, set of commands and keystrokes are entered. Easter eggs are typically used to display the credits for the development team and are intended to be nonthreatening. (SP 800-28) (NISTIR)

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