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by drakaal 4446 days ago
The Private key thing is "bad" but far less bad than the user data that is being exposed.

The Private Key Exposure lets you do impersonation, but you would have to do something with DNS, or such to get it to work. Where as me getting your user/pass, or account information has immediate impact, and can't be "undone".

PS Conflate doesn't mean what you think it does. Conflate has to be wrapper for several topics or ideas that are related.

I can't "conflate" two unrelated things because conflation is by default "true". If we were discussing Gentrification, and Inflation in the housing market of San Francisco then we be talking about the conflated issue of "The San Francisco Housing Crisis".

Just as you can't "inflate" something with a vacuum or sand, or peanut butter, you can't conflate it with something that is unrelated.

This issue of the understanding of the word conflate comes from the fact that people think that "confused" sounds so much like it, and when they are trying to sound smart they use the word conflate when they really mean confuse, and think the two are synonyms.

-Brandon Wirtz

PlexiNLP (I know my words)

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"Conflate" is very often, and properly, used to mean "treating two unrelated things as though they were related," which I believe is exactly what the poster meant to say you are doing. You can make an argument that "trying to conflate" would be more accurate, but only if you're more of a linguistic prescriptivist than most editors.