Tag: Humour
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“When I apply a new CSS for the first time” by Martin Valasek
by UOIT
Now picture what happens when your firewall fails to stop the ‘friendly’ lioness
On Choosing a Maiden Name
Credit card company: What’s your mother’s maiden name? Me: Donkey Kong Bumper Boat. Them: Uh, yes. What? Me: I’m in security.
Steve Werby (@stevewerby) February 7, 2013
2013.2.5
I treat the Internet like a fucking asp, like a dangerous reptile – my comfort sole squashed down hard on the snakeneck … Your security is only as trustworthy as the worst person on Earth.
Security advice from ‘Tycho’, “A Teachable Moment”
Turning IT Into a Profit Centre
Jeffrey Carr has some amusing thoughts on transforming IT in corporate businesses from a cost to a profit centre. Just a taste of the humour:
The good news, or at least potential good news since no one is doing this yet, is that the undiscovered malware lurking on corporate networks potentially represent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in income for the corporation. And since it resides on the corporate network, it becomes the property of that corporation. All of a sudden, something that you’ve viewed only as a threat and an expense has become a valuable commodity thanks to the trend in selling offensive malware to government agencies.
One can easily imagine how his article, slightly reworked, would have made an excellent April fool’s column.
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2012.10.30
It’s very complicated. It’s very cumbersome. There’s a lot of numbers involved with it.
Gov. Nikki Haley’s reason for why social security numbers stolen by a hacker weren’t encrypted


