stelligent / cfn_nag

Linting tool for CloudFormation templates
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Replace 'blacklist' references with 'deny list' #562

Closed rrhodes closed 3 years ago

rrhodes commented 3 years ago

What?

May we replace references to "blacklist" functionality with "deny list", please? I'm happy to open a PR for this change.

Why?

A quote from an NCSC article best explains this, shared below.

It [old terminology] only makes sense if you equate white with 'good, permitted, safe' and black with 'bad, dangerous, forbidden'. There are some obvious problems with this. So in the name of helping to stamp out racism in cyber security, we will avoid this casually pejorative wording [...]