- Insecure or unsecure when dealing with security?
Unsecured feels correct but the past tense changes the meaning ever so slightly Even so, I think it's less incorrect to use "unsecured" than to misuse (insecure) or make up (unsecure) a word Non-secure doesn't feel any better I suspect there is no word and the only reasonable choice is to add a modifier like "insufficiently" or "not" to
- Is glass cannon a generally recognized phrase?
A similar phrase that first springs to mind is loose cannon, which etymologically has little to do with a cannon's firepower, but more to do with the dangers of a unsecured cannon rolling around on the deck of a ship Idioms using the word glass can refer to fragility (as in glass cannon), but the word often connotes transparency as well
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