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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 04:29:53 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   I remain mystified why people who – based on their deep tech reporting – I can only assume know better than this keep abusing the terms "hacker" and "hack". 🙄

   "Researchers", "pranksters", "attackers", "malicious actors" are so much better and more clear in any relevant context.

   Similarly "compromise", "break-in", "leak", "vulnerability".

   The audience of any tech-related piece will understand these terms just as well as "hacker" or "hack". Or *better*.

   There is no good reason for this.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 04:37:54 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     Like, it's not even that much work!

     And any piece of writing will be better for it if the heavily stereotyped, nebulous, unclear, "hacker" / "hack" terms are replaced by more specific, clearer alternatives.

     For example, framing a story not as "hackers hacked <Some Service>", but as "<Some Service> got compromised" removes the "evil hackers" as the implied explanation of why the compromise happened. Making it easier to talk about potential failures on part of <Some Service>'s operator.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 04:39:20 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Tobias Fiebig

     @tfiebig 👍

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     Tobias Fiebig (tfiebig@wybt.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 04:39:21 JST Tobias Fiebig

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     @rysiek Same for "cyber" please... 🥺

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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:04:37 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

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     @rysiek

     there is a reason for it (i didn't say good)

     hollywood

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:04:37 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

     @benroyce and yet I think if that scene involved breaking into a safe and the line was "I think we got a locksmith", we still would not end up with silly headlines like "locksmiths rob a local bank" or "car dealership locksmithed".

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     Code of Amor 💘 (codeofamor@social.codeofamor.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:05:52 JST Code of Amor 💘

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     @rysiek I hate the way people use "hacked" to describe what happens when their dumb ass has fallen for a social engineering scam. No. You haven't been hacked. You've been had.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:11:47 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • elomatreb 🚂

     @elomatreb fair enough, it was a bit too much. Unboosted.

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     elomatreb 🚂 (elomatreb@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:11:48 JST elomatreb 🚂

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     @rysiek Why boost victim blaming? https://chaos.social/@codeofamor@codeofamor.net/113460482901886533