I thought that some of you might enjoy a good laugh
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
When I first saw it, I assumed the whole thing was made up. I did not want to believe anyone could be that dense. But as I read on, it really sounded like a convincing story. Maybe the author is just really good at making it sound real, because it's still so unbelievable. Am I the only one who always approaches these "internet meme" stories assuming they're completely made up? This one I now tend to think is true... but how hard would it really be to fabricate it? I know, I'm the guy on facebook that provides references disproving unbelievable stories people repost.
And sometimes when you're on, you're really f***ing on And your friends they sing along and they love you But the lows are so extreme that the good seems f***ing cheap And it teases you for weeks in its absence Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"
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:wtf: Reading this exchange, it seems that everybody else is an idiot and only he is right. Are they sure he's an auditor and not just a really lazy phisher?
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I thought that but on reflection there must have been some prior relationship for the whole email exchange to have started. Or I would hope so, anyway.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Henry Minute wrote:
It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
When I first saw it, I assumed the whole thing was made up. I did not want to believe anyone could be that dense. But as I read on, it really sounded like a convincing story. Maybe the author is just really good at making it sound real, because it's still so unbelievable. Am I the only one who always approaches these "internet meme" stories assuming they're completely made up? This one I now tend to think is true... but how hard would it really be to fabricate it? I know, I'm the guy on facebook that provides references disproving unbelievable stories people repost.
And sometimes when you're on, you're really f***ing on And your friends they sing along and they love you But the lows are so extreme that the good seems f***ing cheap And it teases you for weeks in its absence Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"
Does sound pretty far fetched but I think it is true too.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
From the way it sounds, the auditor guy could quite well be my ex-manager.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Kind of dumb really as passwords are generally stored in a one way encryption format so that it is impossible to get a list of decrypted passwords. Or am I as dumb as the auditor?
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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Kind of dumb really as passwords are generally stored in a one way encryption format so that it is impossible to get a list of decrypted passwords. Or am I as dumb as the auditor?
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
You are exactly correct. Of course, I'm not going to say which part of your message that refers to. :laugh:
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Is it the pheasant plucker?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Kind of dumb really as passwords are generally stored in a one way encryption format so that it is impossible to get a list of decrypted passwords. Or am I as dumb as the auditor?
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
GuyThiebaut wrote:
passwords are generally stored in a one way encryption format
Kind of, but not really. It's more like scrambling than encryption (the "scrambled" password can never be recovered, as all the data is not maintained in the scrambling process). It's called "cryptographic hashing".
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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From the way it sounds, the auditor guy could quite well be my ex-manager.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Yeah, I think I might know his father.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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You are exactly correct. Of course, I'm not going to say which part of your message that refers to. :laugh:
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
I'm not going to say which part of your message that refers to.
:laugh: That gets a 5. :thumbsup:
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Custodi ea in crypta. :)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
With such a small company, it's possible that they were set up for the singular purpose of getting those usernames/passwords. :~ Also, it's funny that he explained that he forgot he called the guy an idiot and he asked how to troll the guy from the same question he sent the guy a link to (surely that guy would have come back to read that).
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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You are exactly correct. Of course, I'm not going to say which part of your message that refers to. :laugh:
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Took me a while to get that one - I voted you a 6 :)
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
the Auditor
Is this the guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss[^]
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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With such a small company, it's possible that they were set up for the singular purpose of getting those usernames/passwords. :~ Also, it's funny that he explained that he forgot he called the guy an idiot and he asked how to troll the guy from the same question he sent the guy a link to (surely that guy would have come back to read that).
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
With such a small company, it's possible that they were set up for the singular purpose of getting those usernames/passwords
I don't think that can be true. You don't even respond to someone who emails "Would you mind awfully if I audited your systems" unless there is some prior relationship.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
Also, it's funny that he explained that he forgot he called the guy an idiot and he asked how to troll the guy from the same question he sent the guy a link to (surely that guy would have come back to read that).
Agreed, although I always read those 20 things to do before you hit 'Send' and then proceed to ignore them when I get my wild up with someone. :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I agree with what others have said: this looks really suspicious. Anyone who has any experience as a security auditor knows that passwords are typically hashed. We had a security audit done two years ago, and the auditor verified that everything was secure. We wouldn't have given him that kind of unencrypted data anyway: under the policies that I helped to write, I would have been immediately fired. Not only did our auditor not mind the policy, he strongly approved.
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Wow... Anyone who even CONSIDERS sending that kind of data to an external party, even a contractor, should be fired on the spot. If the company has any kind of security, they shouldn't even be CAPABLE of fulfilling those requests... It's a pity he didn't get the go-ahead to post the name of the auditing company, because that really is blacklist-worthy...
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So take a look at Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?[^]. It smacks of a new broom out of his depth (the Auditor) to me. No way he'd get any of the available information from me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Oh I'll give him the information alright, but first he has to find a bucket of steam, a jade monkey, Left handed spatula (I'm south paw, regular ones hurt the wrist), cheesecake glue, and a raise. Any part of the security auditor's request should be against company policy, further more, if they are insecure of the passwords, change the permissions, set everyone's account to reset, send a e-mail stating new policy, not all in this order (even if it was, people wouldn't catch on fast enough unless you add something life threatening in the subject like " we are out of coffee"). to add more fun to the game, set policy where everyone has to change one desk to left ( hopefully your not the unlucky few on a high floor with a window seat, in that case you need to flap your arms really really fast.
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