Infosec community disagrees with changing 'black hat' term
<i>&quot;&gt; Discussions about the topic started late last night after David Kleidermacher[1], VP of Engineering at Google, and in charge of Android Security and the Google Play Store, withdrew from a scheduled talk he was set to give in August at the Black Hat USA 2020 security conference.&quot;</i><p>it&#x27;s usually entitled white people who feel immediately offended by this. With entitled I mean, finished university working at a top position in a large company on a 6 figure salary. It&#x27;s never the worker POC who is slaving away in an Amazon warehouse or working 3 jobs in the gig economy to feed their family. It&#x27;s just a cheap way to get your name in the news and to me (personally) these people are very misguided. They&#x27;re well read no doubt but nevertheless wrong. Guess it&#x27;s easier as an exec at a multinational company to pander to this rather than tackling their transfer-pricing crimes they commit with their Double Irish &#x2F; Dutch Sandwiches[2].<p>Banning language like this is a very dangerous path:<p><i>“Don&#x27;t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by eactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there&#x27;s no reason or excuse for commiting thought-crime. It&#x27;s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won&#x27;t be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occcured to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?” </i> -- George Orwell &quot;1984&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;davekleidermacher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;davekleidermacher&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_and_the_Men_Who_Stole_the_World" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_a...</a>