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Please change the posting title to match the article title and disambiguate between APT (Advanced Persistent Threats, the article subject) and Apt (the package
by gue5t 6y ago
Please change the posting title to match the article title and disambiguate between APT (Advanced Persistent Threats, the article subject) and Apt (the package manager).
- jwilk 6y agoFWIW, the package manager is also spelled APT.
- gue5t 6y agoYou're right... what an annoying namespace collision. On the other hand, stylizing software as Initial Caps is much more acceptable than stylizing non-software acronyms that way, so it would still be less misleading to change the capitalization.
- IgorPartola 6y agoWould you say that these things aren’t aptly named?
- diogenesjunior 6y agoha
- milliams 6y agoEspecially where the article doesn't define it or even use the term "APT" except in the title.
- diogenesjunior 6y agoI thought we couldn't edit titles?
- kencausey 6y agoYes, the poster can for a limited time, 2 hours I think.
- anamexis 6y agoAlso the mods can and often do.
- lormayna 6y agoPoster here. Do you think I need to edit the title? This title was funny to me, but probably just because I am a security guy and I know what is an APT.
- airstrike 6y agoIt should match the original, unless you have a strong reason not to i.e. it breaks the guidelines somehow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 8note 6y agoSwitching Apt to APT would add lot of clarity while barely changing the title
- dopidopHN 6y agoThanks, I don’t work in security but I use APT a lot. I thought it was a unfunny joke? Like ... APT provide some of those packages? Ok. That make more sense. The author did a good job at making that readable. Is it often like that?
- NotEvil 6y agoMost security analysis are easily readable (the ones I read were) but there may be outliers
- tgv 6y agoAnd I thought it was the common English word "apt". It's a trivial ambiguity, not click-bait.