Then, a Bloomberg user could click on a subscriber's name, which would take the user to a function called UUID.
It relates to a function called Heartbeat which exists in "Transport Layer Security" (TLS), the system used to protect confidential data when surfing the web.
It was supposed to enable a function called "Heartbeat" in OpenSSL, the software package used by nearly half of all web servers to enable secure connections.
Mr. Love said the Macintosh OS X operating system offered features that greatly increase the power of his software, notably a function called services that makes it simple for several applications to share information transparently.
During one brainstorming session, Graham expressed his admiration for delicious.com, a site that compiles bookmarks on the Web and contained a function called Delicious Popular that aggregates links that have been bookmarked by multiple users.
If you choose to share more data, by logging into Gmail and enabling a function called Web history, Google records the sites you visit and the links you click.
Bloomberg's more than 2,400 journalists go through hours of compulsory training on how to use the superfast data-splicing terminals, and several former employees said that training included informal tips on how to use a function called UUID to locate sources who were also subscribers.
After the UBS and JPMorgan Chase complaints, Matthew Winkler, editor in chief at Bloomberg News, instructed his chief of staff, Reto Gregori, to make sure the newsroom's use of a function called UUID had been cut off, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
Or even make your own favorite locations and travel itinerary in a function called My Maps.
In both cases, the generated code includes a function called step.
