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*[2FA]: 2-Factor Authentication
*[ADB]: Android Debug Bridge
*[AOSP]: Android Open Source Project
*[ATA]: Advanced Technology Attachment
*[attack surface]: The total number of possible entry points for unauthorized access to a system
*[AVB]: Android Verified Boot
*[cgroups]: Control Groups
*[CLI]: Command Line Interface
*[CSV]: Comma-Separated Values
*[CVE]: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
*[Digital Legacy]: Digital Legacy refers to features that allow you to give other people access to your data when you die
*[DNSSEC]: Domain Name System Security Extensions
*[DNS]: Domain Name System
*[DoH]: DNS over HTTPS
*[DoQ]: DNS over QUIC
*[DoH3]: DNS over HTTP/3
*[DoT]: DNS over TLS
*[E2EE]: End-to-End Encryption/Encrypted
*[ECS]: EDNS Client Subnet
*[EEA]: European Economic Area
*[entropy]: A measurement of how unpredictable something is
*[EOL]: End-of-Life
*[Exif]: Exchangeable image file format
*[FCM]: Firebase Cloud Messaging
*[FDE]: Full Disk Encryption
*[FIDO]: Fast IDentity Online
*[fork]: A new software project created by copying an existing project and adding to it independently
*[GDPR]: General Data Protection Regulation
*[GPG]: GNU Privacy Guard (PGP implementation)
*[GPS]: Global Positioning System
*[GUI]: Graphical User Interface
*[GnuPG]: GNU Privacy Guard (PGP implementation)
*[HDD]: Hard Disk Drive
*[HOTP]: HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code) based One-Time Password
*[HTTPS]: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
*[HTTP]: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
*[hypervisor]: Computer software, firmware, or hardware that splits the resources of a CPU among multiple operating systems
*[ICCID]: Integrated Circuit Card Identifier
*[IMAP]: Internet Message Access Protocol
*[IMEI]: International Mobile Equipment Identity
*[IMSI]: International Mobile Subscriber Identity
*[IP]: Internet Protocol
*[IPv4]: Internet Protocol version 4
*[IPv6]: Internet Protocol version 6
*[ISP]: Internet Service Provider
*[ISPs]: Internet Service Providers
*[JNI]: Java Native Interface
*[LUKS]: Linux Unified Key Setup (Full-Disk Encryption)
*[MAC]: Media Access Control
*[MDAG]: Microsoft Defender Application Guard
*[MEID]: Mobile Equipment Identifier
*[MFA]: Multi-Factor Authentication
*[NVMe]: Nonvolatile Memory Express
*[NTP]: Network Time Protocol
*[OCI]: Open Container Initiative
*[OCSP]: Online Certificate Status Protocol
*[OEM]: Original Equipment Manufacturer
*[OEMs]: Original Equipment Manufacturers
*[OS]: Operating System
*[OTP]: One-Time Password
*[OTPs]: One-Time Passwords
*[OpenPGP]: Open-source implementation of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
*[P2P]: Peer-to-Peer
*[PAM]: Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules
*[POP3]: Post Office Protocol 3
*[PGP]: Pretty Good Privacy (see OpenPGP)
*[PII]: Personally Identifiable Information
*[QNAME]: Qualified Name
*[rolling release]: Updates which are released frequently rather than set intervals
*[RSS]: Really Simple Syndication
*[SELinux]: Security-Enhanced Linux
*[SIM]: Subscriber Identity Module
*[SMS]: Short Message Service (standard text messaging)
*[SMTP]: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
*[SNI]: Server Name Indication
*[SSD]: Solid-State Drive
*[SSH]: Secure Shell
*[SUID]: Set Owner User ID
*[SaaS]: Software as a Service (cloud software)
*[SoC]: System on Chip
*[SSO]: Single sign-on
*[TCP]: Transmission Control Protocol
*[TEE]: Trusted Execution Environment
*[TLS]: Transport Layer Security
*[ToS]: Terms of Service
*[TOTP]: Time-based One-Time Password
*[TPM]: Trusted Platform Module
*[U2F]: Universal 2nd Factor
*[UEFI]: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
*[UDP]: User Datagram Protocol
*[VPN]: Virtual Private Network
*[VoIP]: Voice over IP (Internet Protocol)
*[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium
*[XMPP]: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
*[PWA]: Progressive Web App