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Agreed. I thought this was going to be about infiltrating charities to see how corrupt they were or something.

But granted your typical charity has no idea of what the jargon is in the security (or even broader technical) field, and so "red teaming" is a vague enough phrase that could mean anything.

Seconded. This looks like a good ol' fashioned audit to me. No need to co-opt a term that means something else entirely.

Thirded. I mentally translated 'Red Teaming' to 'audited' / 'reviewed'.

To be fair, what they're doing is good. Just that the wording is a little extravagant.

Term inflation.

In half a generation, audit will be relabelled re-teaming. It's ironic.

Yes thank you. It's a pet peeve of mine when tech people start using tech terms for things that already have widely understood meanings. Like "audit" you numbskulls

As someone who's been raising teenagers for the past decade, their language confusion is driving me crazy.

E.g.: "legitimately", and "literally".

Successfully correcting them on "I" vs "me" vs "myself" is now just a distant fantasy.

Sigh.

I'd argue the title here should be changed, since the original is so (unintentionally) misleading.