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[–] [email protected] 99 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not just UK. It’s a stupid term that organizations use in cybersecurity trainings but no one else uses.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I had to do a security cert last year and it had a bunch of made up sounding crap like that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It feels like one of those where the people that have expertise enough to name new things are not experts in naming things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Developers are notoriously bad at naming anything. Cybersecurity experts are generally developers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

I encountered Quishing the other day - the inadvertent scanning of QR codes that take a browser to a malformed URL or site with malware embedded.

Back in my day, it was just called "being a bit dense", especially as most cameras/QR readers will offer you a prompt to go to a website first.