Writing research question for the Sci Fi book I'm writing:
I need slang terms for computer malware that are based on languages other than English (like "worm" or "virus" are) or stories other than Greek mythology ( like "trojan" is). This is a far future deep-space community, but they originally came from Earth.
For example I thought of tsetse because of the African sleeping sickness that's transmitted by a fly.
Any ideas? Words for parasites, traps, nested dolls, hidden things, etc, in other cultures?