Tuesday·07·March·2006
CERT vs Cert //at 17:11 //by abe
from the abbreviation-vs-acronym dept.
When I read the headline of the Heise Security article “Bürger-CERT freigeschaltet”, I thought, this “Bürger-CERT” would be a certificate authority for end-users (Bürger = citizen) similar to CAcert. I wondered why the German government seems to see a need for such an institution.
Then I read the article itself. Well, the “CERT” in
“Bürger-CERT” neither stands for “certificate” nor for
“certification” but for “Computer Emergency Response Team”. I never
noticed, that with “cert” we have yet another abbreviation having two
different meanings in IT (with one being an acronym) although I
already used it with both meanings. I just didn’t notice it.
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