A list of items — such as files, individual user accounts, words, IP addresses, or URLs — that are banned from a network or service.
See also: Allow List
Commentary:
- Inclusion in the list may result from past violations of the law or service’s rules or other evidence that a given user account or file may be malicious or inherently violate the service’s policies or applicable law.
- Also known as a block list.
- Sometimes called a “black list” although this term is now discouraged.