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Comment by dkersten | Hacker News Reader

Cyber reporter? People still use the word cyber? In 2020?

They're really good with the cybers.

So - I know you're being mostly facetious (it does feel like an old-school word harking back to the 80s/90s era of Cyberpunk).

But in certain tech circles - Israeli tech in particular - "Cyber" has a very specific meaning and is very much used today. It refers to what we in the US call Security / InfoSec.

For example:

https://israelcyberalliance.com

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/israel_national_cyber_dire...

How else do you call a person writing articles in the cyberspace?

Yes, and I'm sure people will be using it in 2077 as well.

Aside from using it in the word "cyberpunk", the word cyber has drastically fallen out of use, at least unironically. The only people who I've personally heard using it since the 90's are people who don't really know much about computers.

There is a field of US law called "cybersecurity law", which technically does not refute your anecdotal point. (I worked in cybersecurity law for a while.)

It is very common in government use. Don't confuse falling out of use among your peer group with falling out of use in general.

When I say "personally heard" I don't mean just my peer group, but media and whatnot too. Government use seems consistent with people who don't understand computers though.

The media you consume is part of your peer group.

Maybe they're one of them cyber punker persons.

sigh-ber

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