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In cryptography, the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) is a family of modern, password-based challenge–response authentication mechanisms providing authentication of a user to a server.
SCRAM bracelet, an ankle bracelet for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring; Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (or SCRAM), a computer security mechanism used with the Simple Authentication and Security Layer; Scram cannon, a hypothetical kinetic energy weapon based on ram accelerator technology
An electronic ankle tag. Electronic tagging is a form of surveillance that uses an electronic device affixed to a person.. In some jurisdictions, an electronic tag fitted above the ankle is used for people as part of their bail or probation conditions.
GPS-based tracking system used for some individuals released from prison, jail or immigrant detention. According to a survey distributed by The Pew Charitable Trusts in December 2015, "the number of accused and convicted criminal offenders in the United States who are supervised with ankle monitors and other GPS-system electronic tracking devices rose nearly 140 percent over 10 years ...
Dawe had developed a habit of saving his crossword-compiling work time by calling boys into his study to fill crossword blanks with words; afterwards Dawe would provide clues for those words. As a result, war-related words including those codenames got into the crosswords; Dawe said later that at the time he did not know that these words were ...
Norman Hilberry (left) and Leó Szilárd at Stagg Field, site of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain-reaction. There is no definitive origin for the term. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission historian Tom Wellock notes that scram is English-language slang for leaving quickly and urgently, and he cites this as the original and most likely accurate basis for the use of scram in the ...
Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as:
An antistatic wrist strap, ESD wrist strap, or ground bracelet is an antistatic device used to safely ground a person working on very sensitive electronic equipment, to prevent the buildup of static electricity on their body, which can result in ESD.