Easter Egg

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Hidden functionality within an application program, which becomes activated when an undocumented, and often convoluted, set of commands and keystrokes are entered. Easter eggs are typically used to display the credits for the development team and are intended to be nonthreatening.

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Entity Type

Vulnerability72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Easter Eggs
possessive: Easter Egg's
pluralpossessive: Easter Eggs'

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