Sources close to the story report that the intended term was “scanning,” not “sniffing” A corrected version is expected to be posted soon. I would like to thank my sources for the information and relate that I have also suffered at the hands of editors. Several years ago an editor decided that my use of the word “UNIX” somehow required expanding that “acronym” — hence the appearance of “Uniplexed Information and Computer System (UNIX)” in an article I “wrote””]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005/07/gartner-analyst-suffers-editing-issues.html