Comment by arcfour
18 hours ago
LPE is a very well-known acronym within the security community, it's not purely academic or obscure or anything.
I agree that it would be a good idea to define it explicitly when writing for a broader audience, but I don't think it's particularly egregious that they didn't. It's certainly something I could see myself forgetting.
Then again, the whole writeup appears to be AI-generated, so...
It is nowhere near this. There are very few acronyms in the IT world that are actually well-known outside of it. LPE is less well-known than LVAD or MCU.
https://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/MCU.htm...
https://www.acronymfinder.com/LVAD.html
https://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/LPE.htm...
> LPE is less well-known than LVAD or MCU.
I knew what LPE stands for but not the others. (I've seen MCU mentioned and kinda had a vague feeling for what it is. Never even seen LVAD.)
Sure, but the target audience of copy.fail is surely not the security community but regular sysadmins who probably don't otherwise follow as closely.
I would absolutely expect a sysadmin in particular to know and understand the term and acronym.