I think outside of the security space it means there&#x27;s a physical object you have to grab. Lay people imagining capturing things with flags planted might mentally connect to war movies where people fought over territory. So, I don&#x27;t think this confusion comes from security community using it so much as it being used for something very different than it&#x27;s usual meaning.<p>Hack the Stock Market or HTM sounds more like exercises involving hacking the stock market than CTF does. Or maybe HTS... Hack the System.... exercises for if Starfighter has other types of scenarios. Yeah, there we go. The phrase even lay people associate with these things.