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Out of curiosity, why is this called Blacknurse? I couldn't make a connection from ICMP Destination Unreachable / port unreachable packet to the BlackNurse? (no
by realkitkat 10y ago
Out of curiosity, why is this called Blacknurse? I couldn't make a connection from ICMP Destination Unreachable / port unreachable packet to the BlackNurse? (not that it matters, I am merely curious).
Also - PoC is for IPv4; does anyone know if systems fail in a similar manner if ICMP6 Destination Unreachable / Port unreachable (ICMP6 T:3, C:4) is being used? (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4443#section-3.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4443#section-3.1)
- jasode 10y ago>Out of curiosity, why is this called Blacknurse? I can only guess that it's a play on "black hat" hacking as opposed to "white hat"[1]. Since ICMP messages are related to network "health" by way of pinging & diagnostics, a good "white nurse" would use that to monitor the health of the patient. However, an evil "black nurse" would use the ICMP protocol against the patient to kill it. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)
- ianai 10y agoThey should have called it "evil nurse" or something less charged. Why even go there?
- 234dd57d2c8db 10y agoBecause maybe not everyone projects their own racism onto innocent words such as black, white, and yellow. We should "go there", because thought-crime and "watch what you say" type ideas are much more dangerous to our society than the term blacknurse.
- mavhc 10y agoAnd you say that as someone who's suffered discrimination, obviously.
- murbard2 10y agoI don't think any harm is intended in this choice of words, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't try to be cognizant of the subtle cumulative effect they might have.
- ianai 10y agoThe problem is that it's really obvious, too. It's not like they used some term that just happened to have been used in the past as slang but is now a commonplace word without the same meaning. You don't need to get out a dictionary to spot the problem.
- 234dd57d2c8db 10y agoSo is black metal music racist? Give me a break, people have associated black with evil things such as monsters stalking the night, plague, and death for 3000 years and probably before it. You are paranoid and overreacting. You're projecting your own racial insecurities onto the world where there simply is none, especially in this case.
- ianai 10y agoMetal is not a person, but a nurse is. All the difference. My point isn't to suggest it's racist, but to ask why even go there? If they changed the term slightly no one would have to double think.
- razakel 10y ago>So is black metal music racist? Well, there are a lot of racist black metal musicians.
- murbard2 10y agoI didn't suggest any of this was racist. I despise the hysterical, wolf-crying, race-baiting PC police, but that doesn't mean that we can't try to make the word a better place by avoiding to pile on the black=evil association in our culture and in the English language, especially when coining new terms. It's not a horrible moral failing not to do so, but it would be nice.
- kdazzle 10y agoI think the reason that Black Nurse might be particularly bad is that during slavery, black women were forced to feed their owners' children instead of their own. Just because you don't see something as problematic doesn't mean that it isn't.
- pYQAJ6Zm 10y agoI haven’t thought of the term in that sense until reading your post. Not because I am unaware of black issues, but because I’m not an American and my context simply lacks the implied connotation for the term in question. The political correction you ask for is USA-centric. I don’t know if the people behind blacknurse.dk are American, but, if the domain is an indication, they may not be.