There are many ways to respond to injustice, both large and small, but each response is important. While we acknowledge it is a small change, Cisco Talos is moving to replace our use of the terms “blacklist” and “whitelist” with “block list” and "allow list.” Even though these terms are commonly in use in the security industry, we will not go along with casually assigning positive connotations to “white” while assigning negative connotations to "black.”
We stand by Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins’…
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