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I really get tired of non-security people entering a security discussion to redefine known security terms to fit some irrelevant personal emotional familiarity. Worse is when you point that out suddenly people are somehow greatly offended.


The way the term is used is correct in the article. Security people use based on the common definition, it's just in security it is assumed that it is with the intent of trapping the person going for the honey.

I agree that domain specific terminology, general language and another domain's language is confusing.

I'm sure a developer at a toy company and management could get confused by a conversation about models.

Doesn't mean either of them are right. Language is frequently ambiguous and we avoid it internally in our domains where possible.




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