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What if we're whitelisting or blacklisting people for the privilege to attend an organized crime conference? Which is good? Which is bad? Note that in this uns
by RhysU 6y ago
What if we're whitelisting or blacklisting people for the privilege to attend an organized crime conference? Which is good? Which is bad?
Note that in this unsavory example there is zero ambiguity! The whitelisted will hang with other mobsters, clearly, plotting evil and mayhem all the while.
The terms have bupkis to do with good and bad.
- jgwil2 6y agoOkay, I guess if you're writing malware then you can feel free to carry on with whatever terminology you like. For the rest of us it is understood that a blacklist is untrusted and a whitelist is trusted, so why don't we just say that explicitly and do away with a culturally dependent metaphor that could offend or confuse?
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- RhysU 6y ago"Trust" is overloaded in a CS context thus adding to, not reducing, cognitive load. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_system Where does this whitewashing (err, denywashing) stop?
- atonse 6y agoNo a blacklist and whitelist has nothing to do with trust. Blacklist simply means “allow by default except for things in this list” whereas whitelist means “deny everything except for what’s in this list”