Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Folks, I am stunned.
An almost 200-page official draft of a 10-year National Digitization Strategy (yeah, the title leaves a bit to be desired), published recently by the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs, does not mention "hackers" or "hacking" once.
Not once! :blobcat:
It goes deep into cyber threats, cybersecurity, etc. It mentions "hacktivists" one single time, but in a way that doesn't even make me cringe.
But finds no need to besmirch the hacker community. :blobcatcoffee:
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Now go on and tell me how it's hard to write a three-page piece about cybersecurity without dropping h-words all over the place.
I dare you.
And I will show you a *book-sized* a policy document that not only doesn't do that, but makes it seem easy. :blobcathappy:
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@catsalad thank you!
I will, shamelessly, take *a bit* of credit for that, for I have been banging that drum in Polish media and policy and NGO context for over a decade.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
@rysiek Well that's a... first. Noice!
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@mwl sure, but that lack of precision is a great reason *not to* use this word in such context.
Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
I'd say not using the word "hacker" in such a document is absolutely necessary.
Sadly, it is insufficiently precise. The meaning varies depending on if the reader is a hacker or not...
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@brawnybunkbedbuddy nah, they found plenty of terms to refer to stuff in that document.
brawnybunkbedbuddy
@rysiek i'm pretty sure by the linguistics our law is still deep between II rp and prl.
they just simply can't find a proper word that would be dignifying enough for dziennik ustaw 🤡 /s
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@pgronkievitz I will note, however, that Newag is – thankfully! – not part of the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs.
Patryk :proletariat_verified:
@rysiek and yet, newag can't say 2 sentences without "hacker" (as in black hat hacker)
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