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Eh, you don't get to control the language of others. If someone wants to say PitM, that's their business.
by spacekitcat 6y ago
Eh, you don't get to control the language of others. If someone wants to say PitM, that's their business.
- bitcharmer 6y agoYou can also call it SITC (someone in the centre) attack if you will, but the point still stands - it impedes communication.
- spacekitcat 6y agoSo long as you expand the acronym in the first use, no one reasonable cares.
- bitcharmer 6y agoI care. Always preferred well established acronyms that everyone is familiar with.
- spacekitcat 6y agoFrom this day forward, I will refer to this sort of attack as a PiTM attack. Not much you can do to stop me I'm afraid.
- jnwatson 6y agoThe same reasoning applies to "single letter variable names are fine". Humans aren't computers. They have a finite number of concepts they can keep in their head. Using existing conventions leads to better understanding as it allow folks to get through a discussion without having to backtrack as often.
- baobabKoodaa 6y ago> no one reasonable cares I care. There's no need to make challenging technical texts more obtuse to read by reinventing all the terms.