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Define: "Air-gapped"
What HR thinks it means:
A network security measure where a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks.
What it actually means:
"The only way to keep the developers from breaking the production environment."
Use it in a meeting:
"We air-gapped the backup server, which worked brilliantly until someone plugged a rogue USB fan into it and took down the network."
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