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A comment on Hertzbleed Attack.

Re:Hertzbleed Attack by mkleinstadt on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:54PM (#31748266)
"Hertz" means "heart" in German, so the name is a pun on "heartbleed" and the unit for frequency
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Re:Hertzbleed Attack by minedwiz on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:59PM (#31748293)
Almost, the word for "heart" is spelled "Herz".
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Re:Hertzbleed Attack by schoen on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:56PM (#31748626)
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.

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Re:Hertzbleed Attack by Hublium on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:34AM (#31750496)
In German, a <z> always makes a /ts/ sound and in modern orthography, "tz" is only used after (short) vowels.
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