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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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It's a really weird name for a product. A crowd strike sounds like a terrorist tactic, not something that brings "security" to mind.
Tom Clancy’s CrowdStrike sounds like the kind of military fiction I’d accidentally buy from the thrift store
there’s a whole strain of extreme terribleness in the wider infosec industry ito naming and references, it’s so goddamn bad
the most recently visible form of this is post-heartbleed how lots of researchers/groups now fall over themselves to give vuln publications Branding (logo, catchy name, etc), but also all kinds of other things that they constantly mix some terminology soup up