By Kevin Townsend on November 03, 2020
Most people will immediately recognize CVE-2014-0160 as a vulnerability, but few will know which vulnerability it refers to. Call it Heartbleed, however, and more people will know more about it. That's the strength of natural language over numbers -- humans remember words more easily than numbers. It's the same argument as that for using domain names rather than IP addresses for web browsing.
