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What is ICE breaking?

• mindcrime 2y ago
  > What is ICE breaking? In this context: me being a little tongue in cheek. In cyberpunk fiction "ICE" means "Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics"[1] and "breaking ICE" basically means something like "hacking through firewalls / network security". The term was made famous (if not outright introduced by) William Gibson's "Sprawl Trilogy" works, particularly Neuromancer. Amusingly enough the term - while fictional - has actually bled over into real-life usage a little bit. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_Countermeasures_Electronics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_Countermeasures_Elec...