Comment by Domenic_S
5 hours ago
> Trusted Access for Cyber program
Using "cyber" as a noun there seems language coded for government. DC has a love of "the cyber" but do technologists use the term that way when not pointing at government?
5 hours ago
> Trusted Access for Cyber program
Using "cyber" as a noun there seems language coded for government. DC has a love of "the cyber" but do technologists use the term that way when not pointing at government?
The finance industry does; I know private equity just calls anything security related "cyber", which irritates me.
Yeah, cybernetics was unrelated to security, and so was the cyberspace or cyberpunk.
Merriam-Webster dictionary:
Cyber: Of, relating to, or involving computers or computer networks (such as the Internet)
This is what I've always understood the word to mean, and how I've always seen it used, for decades.
Cybernetics is actually about feedback control systems. The original meaning has been distorted because the general public doesn't have the background to distinguish different kinds of magic. The Sperry autopilot was a cybernetic system, as were electro-mechanical gun computers.
When I was like 12, I remember my fellow horny youths (or it could have been anyone, I guess!) in AOL chatrooms constantly asking each other "wanna ciber?"
That would be "cyber" as a verb, not "cyber" as a noun. Would anyone have understood what you meant back then if you'd said "I was in a cyber just now" instead of "I was cybering just now"?