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Re:The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen by dash2 on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:57AM (#25727772)
The downside is the cost to communication. I didn't know what a PitM was. After a bit I guessed it was Person, i.e. man in the middle, but I wasn't sure that it didn't mean something else.

I'm not sure how big the gain is here. Are people really going to read "man in the middle" and assume that no woman could ever do this?

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Re:The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen by baobabKoodaa on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:02AM (#25727808)
Also: where are the people who were offended by "man-in-the-middle"? Can you point to a single non-man who was offended that the evil-doer in this example was identified as a man? Or can you point to a single man who was offended for the same reason?
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Re:The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen by mcbits on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:49AM (#25744055)
There are people who object to all gender-neutral uses of "man", probably more from the belief that it perpetuates bias than from personally taking offense.
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Re:The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen by zwog on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:55AM (#25728259)
Well, now you know. And I bet the first time you read 'MitM' you didn't know what it was either.
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Re:The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen by dash2 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:34PM (#25750198)
Right, but learning and memorising multiple terms for the same thing has a cost. Maybe that cost is outweighed by the benefits of making terminology less sexist, that is what I'm unsure about.
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