Remove the 5 Letters "BLACK" from the Dictionary and the Alphabet?
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As a retired security professional I was just reading a ZDNET story:
"Infosec community disagrees with changing 'black hat' term due to racial stereotyping"
I am shocked that somehow the term "Black" as now used frequently to refer to a race of people, has had all other meanings and uses deemed as referring to a race and also being derogatory.
So now we have "white" people trying to make crazy changes to assuage "black" people?
It doesn't make sense to me. What about you? Excepts are below...
The article stated:
The information security (infosec) community has angrily reacted today to calls to abandon the use of the 'black hat' and 'white hat' terms, citing that the two, and especially 'black hat,' have nothing to do with racial stereotyping.
Discussions about the topic started late last night after David Kleidermacher, VP of Engineering at Google, and in charge of Android Security and the Google Play Store, withdrew from a scheduled talk he was set to give in August at the Black Hat USA 2020 security conference.
In his withdrawal announcement, Kleidermacher asked the infosec industry to consider replacing terms like black hat, white hat, and man-in-the-middle with neutral alternatives.
While Kleidermacher only asked the industry to consider changing these terms, several members mistook his statement as a direct request to the Black Hat conference to change its name.
With Black Hat being the biggest event in cyber-security, online discussions on the topic quickly became widespread among cyber-security experts, dominating the July 4th weekend.
While a part of the infosec community agreed with Kledermacher, the vast majority did not, and called it virtue signaling taken to the extreme.
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