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1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   SOCKS
      <security> A security package that allows a host behind a
      firewall to use finger, FTP, telnet, Gopher, and
      Mosaic to access resources outside the firewall while
      maintaining the security requirements.
      [The Security FAQ, Usenet newsgroups
      news:comp.security.misc, news:comp.security.unix,
      news:alt.security].
      (1995-01-31)