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by arcticbull 1313 days ago
Neither was AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon when they named their mobile wallet solution ISIS shortly before the caliphate was formed. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard

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I know someone whose major in college was abbreviated as Isys (information systems). Not anymore.
The credential management system at my college was called ISIS, so you had an ISIS identifier, you had to go through ISIS login, etc.
And let us not forget The International Secret Intelligence Service in Archer.