Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Default
a setting automatically assumed by computer hardware or a software application with regard to various operating functions. For example, when starting, a word processing program defaults to certain margins, spacing, and fonts set by the program’s developer. Many default settings in both hardware and soft-ware can be changed to suit the user’s specifications.
