Black list and its opposite, white list, associate black with bad and white with good.
The usage of black in “black box” means opaque, not bad.
So these aren’t the same.
I had never thought about the connotations of blacklist and whitelist before it was pointed out to me. In retrospect, blacklist and whitelist are unnatural meanings of the words black and white, and blocklist and allowlist make much more sense.
Consequently, I changed the code I’m responsible for at my company to use block and allow.
The usage of black in “black box” means opaque, not bad.
So these aren’t the same.
I had never thought about the connotations of blacklist and whitelist before it was pointed out to me. In retrospect, blacklist and whitelist are unnatural meanings of the words black and white, and blocklist and allowlist make much more sense.
Consequently, I changed the code I’m responsible for at my company to use block and allow.