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layer8today at 3:07 PM1 replyview on HN

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advise meaning 2: to give information or notice to : INFORM

An advisory gives notice and/or warns about something, and may give recommendations on possible actions (but doesn’t have to).


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_verandaguytoday at 3:51 PM

Words have multiple meanings depending on context, and here it's at best ambiguous. In the context of security incidents, logging, auditing, etc., "advisory" is often used as a severity level (and one of the lower ones at that).

So, yes, technically, it's de-facto advisory to publish this information, but assigning "advisory" as a severity tag here is questionable.