The term "slicer" was used to describe computer experts, often self-taught, who excelled at working within a complex computer network, and were able to extract information from this network with great skill. Often, this information was secured by any number and manner of encryption and lockout systems, and a skilled slicer was able to circumvent these systems without triggering alarms, however socketguards were specifically designed to combat slicers.
Slicer droids were intelligent automatons that excelled at sifting through mounds of useless data for the one needed factoid.