_-jacking_

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 26, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>> From the Sophos eNews newsletter:
>
> _Juicejacking_ - an emergency phone charge can be a security risk
> You've heard of _hijacking_. And _carjacking_, _truckjacking_ and
> _shipjacking_. You've probably also heard of _sidejacking_,
> _sheepjacking_, and _clickjacking_. That's nothing. Here comes
> _juicejacking_!  Do you take enough care about where you power-up your
> smartphone?
>
>
> My spellcheck is familiar with only with only _hijacking, carjacking_,
> and oddly, _clickjacking_.
>
Isn't clickjacking what the Southern Bantu languages did to those poor Khoisan languages (we used to call them Hottentot and Bushman, but I know more correct labels have now been affixed, probably bearing those -jacked clicks.

LH

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