vadding
/vad 'ing / (From VAD , a permutation of ADV ,
i .e . {ADVENT }, used to avoid a particular {admin }'s continual
search -and -destroy sweeps for the game ) A leisure -time
activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration
of the "secret " parts of large buildings - basements , roofs ,
freight elevators , maintenance crawlways , steam tunnels , and
the like . A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order
to synthesise vadding keys . The verb is "to vad " (compare
{phreaking }; see also {hack }, sense 9 ). This term dates from
the late 1970s , before which such activity was simply called
"hacking "; the older usage is still prevalent at {MIT }.
Vadding (pronounced /vay 'ding /) was also popular {CMU }, at
least as early as 1986 . People who did it every night were
called the "vaders ," possibly after "elevator ," which was one
of the things they played with , or "invader ," or "Darth
Vader ". This game was usually played along with
no -holds -barred hide -and -seek . CMU grad students were the
known to pry open the inner doors of elevators between floors
to see the graffiti on the inside of the outer doors .
The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is "elevator
rodeo ", also known as "elevator surfing ", a sport played by
wrasslin ' down a thousand -pound elevator car with a 3 -foot
piece of string , and then exploiting this mastery in various
stimulating ways (such as elevator hopping , shaft exploration ,
rat -racing , and the ever -popular drop experiments ). Kids ,
don 't try this at home !
See also {hobbit }.
[{Jargon File }]
(1996 -01 -07 )vadding : /
vad ´
ing /,
n . [
from VAD ,
a permutation of ADV (
i .
e .,
ADVENT ),
used to avoid a particular admin '
s continual search -
and -
destroy sweeps for the game ]
A leisure -
time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the ‘
secret ’
parts of large buildings —
basements ,
roofs ,
freight elevators ,
maintenance crawlways ,
steam tunnels ,
and the like .
A few go so far as to learn locksmithing in order to synthesize vadding keys .
The verb is to vad (
compare phreaking ;
see also hack ,
sense 9 ).
This term dates from the late 1970s ,
before which such activity was simply called ‘
hacking ’;
the older usage is still prevalent at MIT .
The most extreme and dangerous form of vadding is elevator rodeo ,
a .
k .
a .
elevator surfing ,
a sport played by wrasslin '
down a thousand -
pound elevator car with a 3 -
foot piece of string ,
and then exploiting this mastery in various stimulating ways (
such as elevator hopping ,
shaft exploration ,
rat -
racing ,
and the ever -
popular drop experiments ).
Kids ,
don '
t try this at home !
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