Secure Copy Protocol?
Surely "Secure Copy Protocol" is a bacronym. "scp" is just "secure cp", by analogy with "rcp" ("remote cp"), which in turn was named for UNIX "cp". And "cp" is just an abbreviation of "copy", not an acronym.1
I see Wikipedia uses the "Secure Copy Protocol" phrase in the relevant article, but the contributors hedge their bets by also using "secure copy", and they don't seem to cite any source for "Secure Copy Protocol". Some of their sources in fact use "scp protocol", which to my thinking has better etymological justification.
(Sure, there's a security issue here, but it's not nearly as important as arguing over terminology.)
1Or for pedants who adhere to the ill-founded "pronounced as a word" restriction for acronym, an "initialism".
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