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Black History Month And The Language We Use In Tech 💬

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Black History Month And The Language We Use In Tech 💬

Words such as “white-list” or “black-list” have an impact on others and we’ve become desensitized to it.

Ayman Elsawah
Feb 28, 2021
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Black History Month And The Language We Use In Tech 💬

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This entire month I didn’t mention anything about Black History Month, so let me fix that.

Today I released a New Episode of Getting Into Infosec, with a good friend Betsy Bevilacqua. Betsy is of African descent and one of the things she mentioned in our conversation was how the use of “master” and “slave” (often referred to Databases) shocked her as she…

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