Comment by gue5t
5 years ago
Please change the posting title to match the article title and disambiguate between APT (Advanced Persistent Threats, the article subject) and Apt (the package manager).
5 years ago
Please change the posting title to match the article title and disambiguate between APT (Advanced Persistent Threats, the article subject) and Apt (the package manager).
Thanks, I don’t work in security but I use APT a lot. I thought it was a unfunny joke? Like ... APT provide some of those packages? Ok. That make more sense.
The author did a good job at making that readable. Is it often like that?
Most security analysis are easily readable (the ones I read were) but there may be outliers
Especially where the article doesn't define it or even use the term "APT" except in the title.
FWIW, the package manager is also spelled APT.
You're right... what an annoying namespace collision. On the other hand, stylizing software as Initial Caps is much more acceptable than stylizing non-software acronyms that way, so it would still be less misleading to change the capitalization.
Would you say that these things aren’t aptly named?
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And I thought it was the common English word "apt". It's a trivial ambiguity, not click-bait.
I thought we couldn't edit titles?
Poster here. Do you think I need to edit the title? This title was funny to me, but probably just because I am a security guy and I know what is an APT.
Switching Apt to APT would add lot of clarity while barely changing the title
It should match the original, unless you have a strong reason not to i.e. it breaks the guidelines somehow
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, the poster can for a limited time, 2 hours I think.
Also the mods can and often do.