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Glossary Term "mangle"

mangle

Description To change something beyond recognition, or in a manner that is difficult to reverse. In IT the word "mangle" is often used when talking about packet headers or email headers. Some filtering programs (such as firewalls or antivirus software) will mangle headers to change their behaviour, eg mangling headers of emails containing executable files SO the file cannot be run accidentally.
 
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