Sorry you're right. I'm actually not across the matter enough to comment and have only heard the "autistic kid" part through like third hand knowledge.
Although everyone is on the spectrum somewhere, especially in the IT space.
But you're right, the take away from this is I should learn about the topic better.
Backdoor? Even if it isn't blatantly obvious - some autistic kid will notice a program runs 0.05 seconds slower and will work it out.
At the very least if you're going to be backdooring your code you might as well add "back door goes here" to your PR so we can easily cut it out when the hard fork happens without the backdoor included.
Blackmail literally speaks to what I'm saying, ie. Black Market ie. Slavery (including after abolition). Dirty. Lesser. Unusable. Prostitution. People trafficking.
Yes, how about we actually use the names of people.
The word relates to "Labor relations" by which it means the 17th century where there was widespread slavery of overwhelmingly black people by white colonists.
Blacklist referred to people who are untrustworthy, suspicious, to be excluded or avoided.
And white being good and trustworthy.
The term “blacklist” contains the word “black”, which can unintentionally reinforce negative racial stereotypes. Associating “black” with something undesirable or harmful can inadvertently perpetuate harmful biases and contribute to systematic racism.
While the term “whitelist” may not appear as directly problematic, it reinforces a hierarchy with “white” as the preferred or privileged category. Such implications can subtly influence our thinking and conserve racial biases.
And that's not too mention:
Blackmail
Black sheep
Black Market
So no, its not that you can't call something by it's colour. But associating something bad with black and white with good harmful.
Do you really think it's a good idea to store your password, TOTP and pass key in one place?