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https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

by 38 3y ago

xerox13ster 3y ago
I hate to be that person, but as someones with Dissociative Identity Disorder I really wish we would stop using this term and go back to pseudospoofing. I cannot express just how much I HAAATE that the "solution" for a "Sybil" attack is Decentralized IDentification, or DIDs. It's a wholesale theft of the language that defines my existence and will lead many people to associate those with DID with the story of Sybil which woefully outdated and from a time when we knew far less about dissociaton than we do today. This has led me to understand empathically why there were people suggesting we change bus terminology from master/slave to anything else.
- ilyt 3y ago
  I don't think there is any context where those 2 shortcuts would be mistaken for one another. > This has led me to understand empathically why there were people suggesting we change bus terminology from master/slave to anything else. I guess you haven't been one fixing the fallout that pointless shit caused.
  - kazinator 3y ago
    I don't think there is any context in which a bus mastering DMA controller would be mistaken for a plantation owner.
- hifromwork 3y ago
  This comment is very surprising to me. I don't think it's reasonable to expect any three-letter acronym will only mean one thing. For example my usual nickname has three letters, and has around 20 definitions on wikipedia, including sex-related, drug-related and politically charged meanings (I don't identify with). In fact, DID already has a disambiguation page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DID_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DID_(disambiguation). I don't think Dublin Institute of Design or Data Item Descriptions constitute "a wholesale theft of a language".
  - lovemenot 3y ago
    It's not DID alone that's the problem. I believe the parent is triggered by the confluence of Sybil and DID.
- lovemenot 3y ago
  It's clearly an unfortunate clash of both DID and Sybil in two separate nomenclatures. Each of which, in its own domain, has different referents. However, like many of the peer comments here I feel the overlap of these two domains is vanishingly small. Presumably only yourself and a handful of others would even be aware of the etymology. As you feel so strongly, perhaps a well-written blog post would rank highly for anyone curious enough to disambiguate.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

by 38 3y ago

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

I hate to be that person, but as someones with Dissociative Identity Disorder I really wish we would stop using this term and go back to pseudospoofing. I cannot express just how much I HAAATE that the "solution" for a "Sybil" attack is Decentralized IDentification, or DIDs. It's a wholesale theft of the language that defines my existence and will lead many people to associate those with DID with the story of Sybil which woefully outdated and from a time when we knew far less about dissociaton than we do today. This has led me to understand empathically why there were people suggesting we change bus terminology from master/slave to anything else.

ilyt 3y ago
I don't think there is any context where those 2 shortcuts would be mistaken for one another. > This has led me to understand empathically why there were people suggesting we change bus terminology from master/slave to anything else. I guess you haven't been one fixing the fallout that pointless shit caused.
- kazinator 3y ago
  I don't think there is any context in which a bus mastering DMA controller would be mistaken for a plantation owner.
hifromwork 3y ago
This comment is very surprising to me. I don't think it's reasonable to expect any three-letter acronym will only mean one thing. For example my usual nickname has three letters, and has around 20 definitions on wikipedia, including sex-related, drug-related and politically charged meanings (I don't identify with). In fact, DID already has a disambiguation page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DID_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DID_(disambiguation). I don't think Dublin Institute of Design or Data Item Descriptions constitute "a wholesale theft of a language".
- lovemenot 3y ago
  It's not DID alone that's the problem. I believe the parent is triggered by the confluence of Sybil and DID.
lovemenot 3y ago
It's clearly an unfortunate clash of both DID and Sybil in two separate nomenclatures. Each of which, in its own domain, has different referents. However, like many of the peer comments here I feel the overlap of these two domains is vanishingly small. Presumably only yourself and a handful of others would even be aware of the etymology. As you feel so strongly, perhaps a well-written blog post would rank highly for anyone curious enough to disambiguate.