Most overused word in 2016... 'hack'

[Ostatedchi]

Maybe it is just because my profession is cybersecurity, but damn the word 'hack' is so over used and misused it drives me crazy. Such a vague word. For an industry where we have to be precise in our language, it is just a lazy and ignorant term.

I know... deer facespace, KYS, Didn't read, triggered, Jimmies rustled...

 

[Rulz]

I remember when hack was what you did before you coughed.

 

[CBradSmith]

Maybe it is just because my profession is cybersecurity, but damn the word 'hack' is so over used and misused it drives me crazy. Such a vague word. For an industry where we have to be precise in our language, it is just a lazy and ignorant term.

I know... deer facespace, KYS, Didn't read, triggered, Jimmies rustled...

"Triggered" and "hack."

Runner-up: "Russians"

 

[Marshal Jim Duncan]

Transgender

 

[Rulz]

Bruce Gender

 

[Alpha Poke]

Mullet

 

[OSUIvan]

Maybe it is just because my profession is cybersecurity, but damn the word 'hack' is so over used and misused it drives me crazy. Such a vague word. For an industry where we have to be precise in our language, it is just a lazy and ignorant term.

I know... deer facespace, KYS, Didn't read, triggered, Jimmies rustled...

Drive me crazy every time someone posts on a friends facebook that they have been "HACKED" because they left their phone unlocked.

I agree 100% getting your pw phished is not the same as a brute forced hack, but sadly the media wants to generalize instead of reporting accurate terms of our industry.

 

[EvilPOKES]

 

[Marshal Jim Duncan]

 

[BvillePoker]

"Literally" STOP USING THIS WORD!!!!

 

[HighStickHarry]

"Literally" STOP USING THIS WORD!!!!

This battle has been lost. Literally means emphasis now not actual circumstances. We don't win them all. Could care less and irregardless were lost in the last few years as well.