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wardialing

wardialing is the alternative form of war-dialing.

Meaning of war-dialing

Noun

war-dialing (uncountable)

  1. The practice of having a computer dial large numbers of telephone numbers in search of devices that can be exploited, such as fax machines or modems.
  2. A similar practice in other address spaces, such as IP addresses.

Questions about wardialing

What is wardialing the alternative form of?
Wardialing is the alternative form of war-dialing.

Words near wardialing in the dictionary

  1. wardholder
  2. wardholders
  3. wardholding
  4. wardialer
  5. wardialers
  6. wardialing
  7. Wardian
  8. Wardian case
  9. Wardian cases
  10. warding
  11. warding off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wardialing (page history and authors); war-dialing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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