Air-gapped

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Physically isolated from the Internet or some other unsecured network. not-comparable

    "In addition to encrypting any sensitive e-mails, she began using different computers for editing film, for communicating and for reading sensitive documents (the one for sensitive documents is air-gapped, meaning it has never been connected to the Internet)."

Example

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"In addition to encrypting any sensitive e-mails, she began using different computers for editing film, for communicating and for reading sensitive documents (the one for sensitive documents is air-gapped, meaning it has never been connected to the Internet)."

Etymology

From air gap + -ed.

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