Either the term helps understanding or it hinders it. If you need to invoke word origins or dictionaries, you’re already indicating the term by itself isn’t helpful.
Joe On Aug 9, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8/9/20 12:23 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
On Aug 9, 2020, at 10:54 AM, Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Really, asserting that "master secret"
is problematic is simply credibility-destroying.
Besides your concern, how does one secret actively control another?
You are insisting that the only possible meaning of "master" is to control some[one|thing] else. According to New Oxford American Dictionary Third edition, that's true when used it as a noun, but not when used as an adjective or a verb.
Or is it just that there is one root key from which others are derived?
Ie why even bother defending a term that’s inaccurate to start?
Joe
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