joke

This just came into my Snarfer!

How can I not love the fact that hacking the CPU - the hardware - is the next big threat? I mean, how do you patch a CPU?

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IT-manager: "Oh, its patch day. Let me just shut down the boxes."
(Shuts down most boxes in the server room)
IT-slave: "Oh, so silent it suddenly became. It's almost as when I was a kid, and only had my Nintendo DS to play with!"
IT-manager: "Yea, well, lettus gedon widdit."
(They open each box, snap out the CPU, add a transistor or two to the CPU, stick it back in there, and put the lid back on. )
IT-manager: "Cross the fingers, and hit the POWER button."
IT-slave: "Please, please, pretty please, let the main server start again."
(The server spins up, lamps blinking red, green and blue. An ambient light comes out of the cup-holder and after a few seconds, the screen flickers blue, then black, and finally back to blue. A Log-On screen appears on the screen).
IT-manager: "Ah, it worked again. God, I miss the days with automatic updates from Microsoft."
IT-slave: "Yea, when do you think Intel will start with automatic updates?"

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A quick link for you today! 

Security Coin (a blogger - not cash) gives some very appropriate comments on the anti-phishing e-mail encryption tool from Voltage!  

I have not tested the secure email solution from Voltage, so I have to take the Random Infosec Guy on his words about the solution.

 

When things are taken to extremes, there will always be jokers out there taking advantage. Airport security has been a long time standing joke.

This music video takes things to the extreme alright!

 

I am amazed at how crazy one can be just to have your face on the TV screen. Comedians stop for nothing, it seems. Even the risk of getting shot by snipers - who mean business - according to Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione:

"I'm angry, I'm very angry that this stunt happened, it was a very dangerous stunt. The reality is ... (they) put security services in a position where they might have had to take an action no-one would want. We have snipers deployed around the city. They weren't there for show, they mean business, that's what they were there for." it was reported in the Daily Telegraph.

I suspect he is more angry about the fact that his show was called as what is was - nothing but a showoff. A fraud. A $250M comedy, one may say.

It sure raises the question - if a motorcade is not even checked and verified upon before it reaches the final destination, one should be very happy that it was a comedian dressed up like Osama Bin Laden that stepped out of the car - and not his suicidal crews.

Poor Andrew Scipione. I suspect you will not be running such a show again any time soon.

Take a look at the fake IDs, the Osama Bin Laden and the full story over at UK Indymedia!

And make sure to read Bruce Schneiers comments!!