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Promiscuous Mode

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

A configuration setting for a network interface card that causes it to accept all incoming packets that it sees, regardless of their intended destinations.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Control0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Promiscuous Modes
possessive
Promiscuous Mode's
pluralpossessive
Promiscuous Modes'