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>and a blog post for bragging, thankfully they didn't do a name and a logo.

I am still amazed on how many people on HN seem to get worked up over vulnerability names. God forbid someone also slaps a piece of clip art or whatever on the blog post. Worse yet, if they buy a $5 domain... the horror!

Maybe it's just me, but I'd much rather remember "Heartbleed" over "CVE-2014-0160".

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It's fine when your bugs are (unanimously) cool, be it Heartbleed, Meltdown, Spectre or Load Value Injection (this one gets a hilarious video even).

For less cool bugs a logo and a name seems rather... strange, because it happens all the time and it's not clear why it's special. Imagine a coworker fixed a random JIRA ticket which may be "switching to night mode does not work on a certain page" and then named it "Nightfall" and a logo and a landing page and a lot of bragging in the next periodic meeting.

> Imagine a coworker fixed a random JIRA ticket which may be "switching to night mode does not work on a certain page" and then named it "Nightfall" and a logo and a landing page and a lot of bragging in the next periodic meeting.

Well, that would be hilarious.

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