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jjgreen
on April 29, 2021
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RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT ...
Also oddly redundant, most daemons end in a "d" to denote daemon, so that name is a bit like the toe-curling "RAID array".
PixelOfDeath
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That is just to highlight the redundancy!
tuukkah
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This. If I saw a *d-daemon in the process list, I would feel I must research the origin of the name.
_joel
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Reminds me of PAT Testing
dbrgn
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This is called the "RAS Syndrome" (where "RAS" stands for "redundant acronym syndrome"):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
UI_at_80x24
on April 29, 2021
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As the President of the AAPoOAA[0] I'd like to point out that this is the #1 article in our charter.
[0] American Association of over Abused Acronyms </joke>
twarge
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also, "web blog"
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