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In computing, a Living Lab is a virtual organization consisting of a user community that collaborates to solve problems of common interest. The solutions typically involve information technology solutions that are geographically distributed to support the distributed user base. Typical solutions such as online collaboration tools like video conferencing, shared filestores, email, instant messaging and Wikis are often combined to support particular distributed events.
Living Labs are typically implemented by governments ,[1] and often include users from a particular application domain, such as libraries, regional or municipal governments, business centres, tourism centres, and other non-government organizations.[2] A Living Lab is an example of social engineering techniques used to help users collaborate on the Internet.[3] Living Labs can include support for new legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical awareness sessions.
The first recorded mention of the term "living lab" is on the alt.online-service.America-online Usenet newsgroup on January 2, 1996,[4] although the term may have appeared earlier in the print edition of the hacker magazine 2600.[5] A phishing technique was described in detail as early as 1987, in a paper and presentation delivered to the International HP Users Group, Interex.[6] The term phishing is a variant of fishing,[7] probably influenced by phreaking,[8][9] and alludes to the use of increasingly sophisticated baits used in the hope of a "catch" of financial information and passwords. The word may also be linked to leetspeak, in which ph is a common substitution for f.[10]