Tampering
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Tampering may refer to:
- Tampering (crime)Tampering (crime)Tampering can refer to a variety of forms of sabotage but the term is often used to mean intentional modification of products in a way that would make them harmful to the consumer. This threat has prompted manufacturers to make products that are either difficult to modify or at least difficult to...
, intentional modification of products in a way that would make them harmful to the consumer - Tampering (sport), the practice, often illegal, of professional sports teams negotiating with athletes of other teams
- Tampering (quality control)Tampering (quality control)Tampering in the context of a controlled process is when adjustments to the process are made based on outcomes which are within the expected range of variability. The net result is to re-align the process so that an increased proportion of the output is out of specification. The term was introduced...
, changing an industrial process in an attempt to improve output but having the opposite effect - Tamper-evidentTamper-evidentTamper-evident describes a device or process that makes unauthorized access to the protected object easily detected. Seals, markings or other techniques may be tamper indicating.-Tampering:...
, a device or process that makes unauthorised access to a protected object easily detected - Tamper resistant making it difficult to tamper with an object or system
- TamperproofingTamperproofingTamperproofing is a term sometimes used for a methodology used to hinder, deter or detect unauthorised access to a device or circumvention of a security system....
, The belief that something cannot be tampered with - SabotageSabotageSabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening another entity through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. In a workplace setting, sabotage is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions. One who engages in sabotage is...
, modification of a device to induce failure - Witness tamperingWitness tamperingWitness tampering is harming or otherwise threatening a witness, hoping to influence his or her testimony.-Witness tampering in the USA:In the United States, the crime of witness tampering in federal cases is defined by statute at , "Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant"...
, an illegal attempt to coerce witnesses called to testify in a legal proceeding