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by orf 841 days ago
> When millions of people understand a term "wrong", then that becomes "correct" on virtue of it being so widely used
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I don't think this applies here. People literally agree that CVEs are the identifiers beginning with CVE-xxxx published by CNAs. They don't for example, think they're ticket numbers from the Apache bug tracker. The fact that they use them as if the criteria for publishing a CVE was more rigid, doesn't actually make that criteria more rigid.