Trojan horseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Trojan horse (複数形 Trojan horses)

1. (by extension) A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.
2. (computing) A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.
   • 1991, Katie Hafner & John Markoff, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (1995 revised edition), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pp. 255-256:

     Worse than what could be observed about the program was the fear that it might be a Trojan horse program -- apparently innocent, but carrying a string of code instructing the computer to carry out a specific damaging instruction at some later time.

3. (business) A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.
4. (politics) A person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions.
   • 2003, Krugman, Paul R., The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (2004 reprint), W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, p. 449:

     Indeed, it may turn out to be a Trojan horse that finally allows conservative ideologues, who have unsuccessfully laid siege to Medicare since the days of Barry Goldwater, to breach its political defenses.

同意語

• (program): Trojan

引用

• 1981, Michael R. Hill, "Positivism: A 'Hidden' Philosophy in Geography" in Themes in Geographic Thought edited by Milton E. Harvey & Brian P. Holly, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN pp. 48-49:

  Thus positivist ideas can slip into geography just as the Greeks slipped into Troy via the belly of a wooden horse. .... Fortunately, the Trojan Horse hypothesis today describes fewer and fewer geographers.

動詞

Trojan-horse (三人称単数 現在形 Trojan-horses, 現在分詞 Trojan-horsing, 過去形および過去分詞形 Trojan-horsed)

1. (idiomatic) To introduce slyly, to sneak in.
   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.