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by zoeysmithe 618 days ago
This is what happens when people 'sanitize' their writing with an AI. It doesn't often understand trademarks or context, so we get stuff like this.

I imagine the real human written sentence was "Trying to get admin access via a Confluence exploit," which there are many and an app that IT groups take their time updating.

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As I wrote in the sibling comment to yours, it really could go either way. A confluence, a place where you find a lot of information like an intranet shared drive, is a reasonable interpretation without the original quote in place. But so is Confluence the application as an example of a confluence which also exists on an intranet, and the writer misunderstood and (being a writer) used their familiarity with English to infer more than was said.

We don't need AI for either interpretation, just familiarity with English.