• quaternaut@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      At my company, white hat hackers are to be called “offensive security researchers”. Black hat hackers are to be called “attackers”.

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      8 months ago

      Don’t forget about the whole master/slave thing or how often programmers kill children.

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      8 months ago

      I think grey still is acceptable, at least until the martians start demanding equal rights.

      I think terms like “legal grey area” don’t have the same connotations as black/white do, because “grey” isn’t really used as an adjective for a person.

      I still refer to our oldschool Linux admins as greybeards. I think that’s okay because there’s like 5 oldschool female Linux admins in the world and they are chill as hell.