cyberunit
nounEtymology From cyber- + unit.
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A unit (in various senses) in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- We live in a digitalized world that is advancing and changing as you read this sentence, leading to the myth that we are losing our “humanness” and becoming cyberunits in a cyberuniverse.1996, Jeff Williams, How to Manage Your Middle School Classroom, page 104:
- The same cyber-unit also attacked other Albanian sites and the largest Croatian daily English newspapers.2006, Athina Karatzogianni, The Politics of Cyberconflict:
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- Once delivered as dangerous payloads, the Chinese PLA cyberunits can exploit these remotely-planted command and control devices, to collect all manner of sensitive governmental, economic or confidential information.2012, William Hagestad II, 21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare, page 48: