HASH BUSTER Definition & Meaning

hash buster

[hash buhs-ter]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Computers.��a program that generates unique strings of text within a spam email, designed to fool a spam filter and appearing randomly as the email’s subject, sender, or message.
All that spam in your inbox may be due to hash busters.

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First recorded in 2000–05; hash ¹ (in the sense “in computers, a single number representing a message”) + buster ( def. )

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