alt Hacker NewsWhen did we start to shorten cyber security with just cyber? I see this quite often now and I think it's just stupid, it doesn't make sense.
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nullc • today at 6:08 AM
Make cyber not cyber.
antonvs • today at 5:59 AM
The US military had a big influence on it. It comes from the same people who brought you the pronunciation noo-kew-la. To quote Gene Wilder, “You know… morons.”
The observed shift was noted by Ed Felton in 2008 at Princeton [0]:
> Over time, “cybersecurity” somehow became “cyber security” and then just “cyber”.
[0] https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2008/07/24/whats-cyber-cyber...