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Why I am choosing inclusive language in technology this Juneteenth, and how you can too!

By Matt Jones | June 17, 2021 | 0 Comment

In the course of writing software or security policies, we often need to specifically allow some items or exclude other items.  For years, most software development teams have referred to these as “whitelists” and “blacklists.”  Examples include only allowing (whitelist) or blocking (blacklist) traffic from a set of known IP addresses.   In recent years, software […]

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Why I am choosing inclusive language in technology this Juneteenth, and how you can too!

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In the course of writing software or security policies, we often need to specifically allow some items or exclude other items.  For years, most software development teams have referred to these as “whitelists” and “blacklists.”  Examples include only allowing (whitelist) or blocking (blacklist) traffic from a set of known IP addresses.   In recent years, software […]

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