Ash Berlin-Taylor created CASSANDRA-15862:
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Summary: Use "allow list" or "safe list" instead of the term
"whitelist"
Key: CASSANDRA-15862
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15862
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Ash Berlin-Taylor
Language matters. I'd like to remove all references in Apache Airflow to
whitelist or black list, and the Cassandra Python API has some that we can't
easily remove.
The recent global events have made this even more relevant, but this has been
on my radar for a while now. Here is a well written article for why I think it
matters
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/terminology-its-not-black-and-white
{quote}It's fairly common to say whitelisting and blacklisting to describe
desirable and undesirable things in cyber security.
However, there's an issue with the terminology. It only makes sense if you
equate white with 'good, permitted, safe' and black with 'bad, dangerous,
forbidden'. There are some obvious problems with this. {quote}
My exposure to is via the Python API where there is the
cassandra.pollicies.WhiteListRoundRobinPolicy class. I propose that this be
renamed to AllowListRoundRobinPolicy instead. I do not know if there are other
references.
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