> Its TLS and not SSL. Its TLS for a long time now...
Sure, that's technically correct but a wee bit overly pedantic. When technical people speak about SSL/TLS certificates it's common parlance to say "SSL" and everyone usually knows what you're talking about, which includes TLS, and whatever other new acronym might come down the pipe in the future.
You know, i do get this but we are in IT not in Marketing.
My most used skill is to make sure i'm pedantic aka 'so we need to calculate this from that after this? and we need accuracy of 0.32? And what should that button do exactly?'
It is not SSL its TLS and i don't expect everyone to get it but its still wrong.
The weirdes thing in IT is, that i don't know any other word which is so missused then SSL.
Good point even if it is pedantic. I shift between terms depending on my audience, but try to use TLS in technical circles as an example.
I worry that I'll forever have to use both terms, because while SSL is the term that communicates better to semi-literate audiences, I worry that some security expert will assume I don't know anything because I'm using the "wrong" term.
Sure, that's technically correct but a wee bit overly pedantic. When technical people speak about SSL/TLS certificates it's common parlance to say "SSL" and everyone usually knows what you're talking about, which includes TLS, and whatever other new acronym might come down the pipe in the future.