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aliases are not globally unique #1766

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Strings may be added to the aliases array of an organization even if they are already in the aliases array of another organization or are equal to the name of another organization. Plausible use cases for the aliases array may include extracting it from CVE Services and sharing it broadly, so that someone can find an organization even if they don't know its exact current name. This may lead to ambiguous lookup results or confusion about the meaning of an alias name.

For example, the Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. organization has the FB short_name in production today, but FB would plausibly be desired as an alias for the Meta Platforms CNA (which owns the fb.com domain that is used for email).

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