Weaving the hyperglossary
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Gary Hinson
Jun 24, 2025, 3:44:59 PMJun 24
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Mornin' all.
The "hyperglossary" format comes easily to me, having been using it for years. Just in case it's not immediately obvious to all, I thought perhaps I should explain how it works with an example.
So, here's a typical entry from the Cybersecurity Hyperglossary for "Acccess card" (also known as proximity card, pass card etc.):
All twelve underlined terms in that definition are linked to the corresponding entries in the hyperglossary with their own definitions - "Authentication" for instance leads to:
The idea is that anyone seeking to understand a cybersecurity term can look it up and think about its definition ... and if any of the specialist terms in the definition are also unclear, they can explore them too, hopping intuitively from term-to-term, learning as they go.
That's it, in a nutshell. "Easy-as", as we say down here.
Rob Slade, greatgrandpa and widower
Jun 24, 2025, 4:03:32 PMJun 24
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM Gary Hinson <ga...@isect.com> wrote:
All twelve underlined terms in that definition are linked to the corresponding entries in the hyperglossary with their own definitions
Not quite identical, but pretty similar to what I did with the dictionary (and still followed with the errata http://victoria.tc.ca/int-grps/books/techrev/secgloss.htm )
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Gary Hinson
Jun 25, 2025, 12:55:45 AMJun 25
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Pretty similar to Wikis and thesauri and encyclopaedias, too, woven together with a dictionary.
Hey Rob, have you forgiven 'us' yet for turning virus into a generic term?
[For those who don't know, Rob Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses was years ahead of its time in 1994, while his Dictionary of Information Security in 2006 remains a classic.].
Rob Slade, greatgrandpa and widower
Jun 25, 2025, 1:02:38 AMJun 25
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM Gary Hinson <ga...@isect.com> wrote:
Hey Rob, have you forgiven 'us' yet for turning virus into a generic term?
Even with the explosion in different kinds of malware, I think it's a bad idea. I still think that the multiplicity of malware types makes it *more* important to correctly identify them, rather than less, since each type presents different types of risk, and requires different kinds of protection and prevention. (These days my main pet peeve relates to those who lump both ransomware and breachstortion under the term ransomware.)
Richard Kranendonk
Jun 27, 2025, 4:40:18 AMJun 27
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... but not quite similar:
> backhoe degradation [...] refers to 100% attenuation of the signal when some person of low intellectual capacity fails to check out the location of underground cables before they start digging ditches.
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