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The main reason I don't like the name upskirt is that it led to me wasting precious brain-seconds trying to work out in what sense it was a pun on 'Markdown,' a
by JonnieCache 15y ago
The main reason I don't like the name upskirt is that it led to me wasting precious brain-seconds trying to work out in what sense it was a pun on 'Markdown,' after the fashion of 'Discount,' and so on.
Obviously it turns out that it isn't a pun at all. I had assumed that the pun would excuse the sexist connotations of upskirt, that it would be an amusing bait-and-switch manoeuvre, that the author wanted to be able to say, "Hey, you thought I was being misogynistic, but in fact the error was yours when you failed to recognise my magnificently subtle wordplay, you philistine! Sexist? Me? How dare you leap to such conclusions!"
In fact all they wanted to do was evoke images of sexual assault. How disappointing.
EDIT: An interesting thought: would upskirt be an acceptable name for a portscanner/banner-scraper? I think perhaps it would, but it would open the doors to a whole area of extremely distasteful names for pentesting tools in general.