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This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. The only useful part of the text are the URLs.

Also, this:

> A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security.

Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

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> This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read.

Its target audience appears to be ten-year-olds, yet it's inexplicably devoid of memes.

the target audience is managers and bookkeepers who see the sophos invoice every month but have no idea what they do.

here is the blog post in meme form, for your convenience: https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/67508702/look-at-me-...

I do in team chat. It's obvious enough in context, as in "hey can you deploy, I just patched this urgent vuln: [url to ticket]"

You won't see me using it in an email or other long form writing though.

Yep, chat makes sense. Thank you for actually stating a use-case.

As a security consultant, sure we do. But I'd never use it in a customer report or company blog post if I felt I needed to explain the abbreviation.

"vuln" is pretty commonly used in the security industry

> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.

It's weird because when you read vulnerability (or at least when I say it) the first phoneme effectively becomes 'vun' - but in the abbreviated form one feels the need to mentally enunciate the 'l'.

It's because vul-ner-a-bil-i-ty is being chopped in the middle of a syllable "ner",

"Vulner" is more pleasant than "vuln"

I think the dropped l might just be your locale. I certainly pronounce it in the full word.

I've typed it, but I dunno if I've ever said it out loud. Kind of like i18n.

Same here. It is used internally here as a written abbreviation, and we use it as a prefix in a numbering scheme to identify a certain category of defects, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone use it verbally.

> oddly vulgar

My initial reaction was 'linguistically disgusting', but I decided to hold off the opinion, just in case I am strangely illiterate.

I have heard it used.

Vuln is a common abbreviation in the security space - although, I dont appreciate parts of the sentence structure and how things are written in the article in general. Its difficult to read.

u r n0t 1337 h4xx0r

This sounds like it was written by the same guy who started the "Hacker known as 4Chan" meme

I uz vuln evry day n sware dev.

Zerocool and Neo do.

no, I want to abbr I use v, and a for att.

Totes.

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