Many involve eccentric codenames.
BBC News - GCHQ leak lists UK cyber-spies' hacking tools
For example, the ability to send an audio message to a large number of telephones and/or "repeatedly bomb" a target number with the same message is called
Concrete Donkey - the name of a weapon in the video game Worms.
Other examples include:
Angry Pirate - a tool to permanently disable a target's account on their computer
Bomb Bay - the capacity to increase website hits/rankings
Cannonball - the ability to send repeated text messages to a single target
Gestator - a tool to make a message, normally a video, more visible on websites including YouTube
Glitterball - software to help agents carry out operations in Second Life and other online games
Birdstrike - Twitter monitoring and profile collection
Fatyak - public data collection from the business-focused social network LinkedIn
Spring Bishop - a tool to find private pictures of targets on Facebook
Changeling - the ability to spoof any email address and send messages under that identity
Bearscrape - a tool to extract a computer's wi-fi connection history
Miniature Hero - the ability to source real-time call records, instant messages and contact lists from Skype
Swamp donkey - a way to send a modified Excel spreadsheet document that silently extracts and runs malware on the target's computer
Underpass - a tool to change the result of online polls
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