deprecated
= D =
deserves to lose
derf /derf/ v.,n.
[PLATO] The act of exploiting a
terminal which someone else has absentmindedly left logged on, to
use that person's account, especially to post articles intended to
make an ass of the victim you're impersonating. It has been
alleged that the term originated as a reversal of the name of the
gentleman who most usually left himself vulnerable to it, who also
happened to be the head of the department that handled PLATO at the
University of Delaware. Compare baggy pantsing.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.