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"Hertz" means "heart" in German, so the name is a pun on "heartbleed" and the unit for frequency

• minedwiz 4y ago
  Almost, the word for "heart" is spelled "Herz".
  • schoen 4y ago
    I think it's still intended as a pun as Hertz (the physical unit and the name of Heinrich Hertz) and Herz are pronounced alike. Wikipedia and Wiktionary also have some suggestion that the name Hertz is etymologically related to the word Herz, although they disagree about exactly how.
    • Hublium 4y ago
      In German, a <z> always makes a /ts/ sound and in modern orthography, "tz" is only used after (short) vowels.