Reply to post: Re: "Crypto" means Cryptosporidium

Crypto for cryptographers! Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees

Alan J. Wylie

Re: "Crypto" means Cryptosporidium

"CDC", when I was in uni, stood for Control Data Corporation

From the Jargon File:

In 1989, a random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin "What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?" Paul's straight-faced response: "There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms"

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