[gue5t]

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).

[dopidopHN]

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?

[NotEvil]

Most security analysis are easily readable (the ones I read were) but there may be outliers

[milliams]

Especially where the article doesn't define it or even use the term "APT" except in the title.

[jwilk]

FWIW, the package manager is also spelled APT.

[gue5t]

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.

[IgorPartola]

Would you say that these things aren’t aptly named?

[diogenesjunior]

ha

[tgv]

And I thought it was the common English word "apt". It's a trivial ambiguity, not click-bait.

[diogenesjunior]

I thought we couldn't edit titles?

[lormayna]

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.

[8note]

Switching Apt to APT would add lot of clarity while barely changing the title

[airstrike]

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

[kencausey]

Yes, the poster can for a limited time, 2 hours I think.

[anamexis]

Also the mods can and often do.