Misnomers in “Cybersecurity”
They are not right just because they are popular
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3 min readDec 6, 2021
There are quite a few things that get a common name that becomes hard to shake regardless of how inadequate it may be. Guinea pigs are neither pigs nor from Guinea, the Isle of Dogs is not an island, and your funny bone is not a bone at all, for the sake of some examples. This is my list as it relates to Information Security:
