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> Its TLS and not SSL. Its TLS for a long time now...

Sure, that's technically correct but a wee bit overly pedantic. When technical people speak about SSL/TLS certificates it's common parlance to say "SSL" and everyone usually knows what you're talking about, which includes TLS, and whatever other new acronym might come down the pipe in the future.

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You know, i do get this but we are in IT not in Marketing.

My most used skill is to make sure i'm pedantic aka 'so we need to calculate this from that after this? and we need accuracy of 0.32? And what should that button do exactly?'

It is not SSL its TLS and i don't expect everyone to get it but its still wrong.

The weirdes thing in IT is, that i don't know any other word which is so missused then SSL.

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